Fitness of interspecific hybrids in the genus sorghum: Persistence of crop genes in wild populations

Ecological Applications

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 512-518

  Arriola, Paul E ^a,b   Ellstrand, Norman C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ELMHURST COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Escape; Fitness; Interspecific hybridization; Johnsongrass; Sorghum bicolor; Sorghum halepense; Transgene persistence; Weed x crop hybrids

Indexed keywords

SORGHUM; SORGHUM BICOLOR; SORGHUM HALEPENSE; POACEAE;

CROP-WEED COMPLEX; FITNESS; GENE FLOW; HYBRIDIZATION; JOHNSONGRASS; SORGHUM;

EID: 0030613879     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(1997)007[0512:FOIHIT]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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