Discussion
To evaluate NDD mediated by multiple natural enemies, we evaluated the
effects of functional CNVs of defense response extracted from
transcriptome on seedling survival. The gene copy numbers of defense
response to fungus, insect and virus are significantly and negatively
associated with survival rates, which does not support the Hypothesis I.
The Hypothesis II, that neighborhood functional CNV dissimilarity
increase seedling survival, was verified in defense response to
bacterium and virus, but we gain an opposite effect in defense response
to insect. Below the specific results linked to each hypothesis are
discussed.