Born to run: Competition enhances the spread of genes from crops to wild relatives

New Phytologist

Volumn 173, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 450-452

  Wolfe, Lorne M ^a   Blair, Amy C ^b  

^a GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Crop wild hybridization; Gene flow; Introgression; Path analysis; Raphanus raphanistrum; Raphanus sativus; Transgenes

Indexed keywords

CROP; FERTILITY; GENE; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; NOTE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; RADISH;

CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; FERTILITY; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, PLANT; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; RAPHANUS;

RAPHANUS RAPHANISTRUM; RAPHANUS SATIVUS;

EID: 33846254095     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2007.01982.x     Document Type: Note

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