Cottonwood hybrids gain fitness traits of both parents: A mechanism for their long-term persistence?

American Journal of Botany

Volumn 89, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 981-990

  Schweitzer, Jennifer A ^a   Martinsen, Gregory D ^a   Whitham, Thomas G ^a  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hybrid fitness; Introgression; Populus; Ramets; Seed viability; Sexual and asexual reproduction; Transgressive segregation

Indexed keywords

ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; FITNESS; HYBRIDIZATION; INTROGRESSION; PERSISTENCE; SEED PRODUCTION; SEXUAL REPRODUCTION; VIABILITY;

UNITED STATES; UTAH; WEBER RIVER;

POPULUS; POPULUS ANGUSTIFOLIA; POPULUS FREMONTII;

EID: 0036294668     PISSN: 00029122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3732/ajb.89.6.981     Document Type: Article

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