Editorial: On the frontier of a plant’s dilemma: Exploring the molecular basis ofgrowth versus defense antagonism
Bibliographic record
Abstract
On the frontier of a plant's dilemma: Exploring the molecular basis of growth versus defense antagonism Pest and pathogen attacks are responsible for major agricultural losses and are critical obstacles to global food security, a problem that is expected to be exacerbated with changing climates and increasing populations (Deutsch et al., 2018;Savary et al., 2019;Delgado-Baquerizo et al., 2020;Jones, 2021;Ristaino et al., 2021).A major hurdle to increasing plant resilience against biotic attackers is the antagonism between growth and defense, which is a well-documented physiological bottleneck where the activation of growth processes has detrimental effects on defenses or vice-versa (Smedegaard-Petersen and Tolstrup, 1985;Herms and Mattson, 1992;Huot et al., 2014;Sestari & Campos, 2022).Besides its agronomic relevance, this "dilemma of plants" also has profound impacts on natural ecosystems, where it serves as a major factor defining the composition of plants and their enemies (Zust et al., 2012;Cappelli et al., 2020).Despite the ecological and economic relevance of plant growth-defense balance, the molecular mechanisms controlling their antagonism are just now being uncovered.This Research Topic of Frontiers in Plant Science presents recent findings on the molecular basis of this dilemma.Subjects extend from the identification of novel genes and molecules that modulate growth and defense to the molecular mechanisms associated with plant responses against viral infections.The identification of genetic players that regulate both growth and defense simultaneously is important for understanding, and perhaps eventually manipulating, the balance of these antagonistic processes (Karasov et al., 2017;Monson et al., 2022).In this Research Topic, Khan et al. demonstrates that ILL6, an aminohydrolase involved with turnover of the defense-related hormone jasmonate (JA; Widemann et al., 2013), may also modulate growth and disease resistance in the plant model Arabidopsis
Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.
How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.006 | 0.018 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.004 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.018 | 0.021 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.017 | 0.017 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".