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Minireview The fitness costs to plants of resistance to pathogens Jeremy J Burdon and Peter H Thrall Address: Division of Plant Industry, CSIRO, PO Box 1600, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia. Correspondence: Jeremy J Burdon. E-mail: jeremy.burdon@csiro.au Published: 14 August 2003 Genome Biology 2003, 4:227 The electronic version of this article is the complete one and can be found online at /2003/4/9/227 ? 2003 BioMed Central Ltd Abstract It has long been predicted that genes giving resistance to pathogens impose a cost on the fitness of plants. A new study has shown this to be true for