HOW TO BE SWEET? EXTRAFLORAL NECTAR ALLOCATION BY GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM FITS OPTIMAL DEFENSE THEORY PREDICTIONS

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Resistance Mechanisms Against Arthropod Herbivores in Cotton and Their Interactions with Natural Enemies (2013, background): “Indirect evidence that EFNs have evolved to attract ants comes from the two species lacking extrafloral nectaries (Wäckers and Bonifay, 2004).”
Does having multiple partners weaken the benefits of facultative mutualism? A test with cacti and cactus‐tending ants (2007, background): “In one of the few applications of ODT to biotic defense, Wäckers and Bonifay (2004) found that EFN production from the bracteal nectaries of cotton plants (Gossypium hirsutum ) exceeded that of foliar nectaries.”
Indirect defence via tritrophic interactions. (2008, background): “…as EFN production generally depends on the developmental state of the secreting organ (Tilman, 1978; O’Dowd, 1979; Yokoyama & Miller, 1989; Heil et al., 2000; Wäckers & Bonifay, 2004) with patterns fulfilling predictions of the ODH (Bentley, 1977; Heil et al., 2000; Wäckers & Bonifay, 2004).”
Can optimal defence theory be used to predict the distribution of plant chemical defences? (2010, unknown): “For example, researchers have found that extrafloral nectar production rates (Wäckers & Bonifay 2004; Radhika et al. 2008; Holland, Chamberlain &Horn 2009) and trichome densities (Traw&Feeny 2008) are correlated with assumed tissue value.”