Evolutionary tradeoffs for nitrogen allocation to photosynthesis versus cell walls in an invasive plant

^aXishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650223, Yunnan Province, China;
^bDivision of Biological Sciences, University of Montana, Missoula, MO 59812;
^cInstituto de Ecología, Departamento de Ecología de la Biodiversidad, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Apartado Postal 70-275, C. P. 04510, México D. F., México; and
^dCentre for Environmental Management of Degraded Ecosystems, University of Delhi, Delhi 110007, India

Edited by James H. Brown, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, and approved December 11, 2008 (received for review August 25, 2008)

Footnotes

↵¹To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: fyl{at}xtbg.ac.cn

Author contributions: Y.-L.F., R.M.C., A.V.-B., and Inderjit designed research; Y.-L.F., Y.-B.L., R.-F.W., Y.-P.L., and Y.-L.Z. performed research; Y.-L.F., Y.-B.L., and R.-F.W. analyzed data; and Y.-L.F., R.M.C., A.V.-B., and Inderjit wrote the paper.
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
This article is a PNAS Direct Submission.
This article contains supporting information online at www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/0808434106/DCSupplemental.

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