A necessary considering factor for breeding: growth-defense tradeoff in plants

Abstract Crop diseases cause enormous yield losses and threaten global food security. Deployment of resistant cultivars can effectively control the disease to minimize crop losses. However, high level genetic immunity was often accompanied by an undesired reduction in growth yield. Recently, literatures have been rapidly emerged understanding mechanism resistance development genes plants. To determine how why costs likely benefit caused varieties, we re-summarized present knowledge about crosstalk between plant those that function as plasma membrane residents, MAPK cassette, nuclear envelope (NE) channels components pleiotropic regulators. Considering growth-defense tradeoffs on basis current advances, finally, try understand suggest a reasonable balancing strategies based interplay with should be considered enhance capacity without penalty future breeding.