Out of the swamp: Unidirectional hybridization with weedy species may explain the prevalence of Amaranthus tuberculatus as a weed

New Phytologist

Volumn 184, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 819-827

  Trucco, Federico ^a   Tatum, Tatiana ^b   Rayburn, A Lane ^c   Tranel, Patrick J ^c  

^a Instituto Cardiovascular de Rosario   (Argentina)

^b SAINT XAVIER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Amaranthus hybridus; Amaranthus rudis; Amaranthus tuberculatus; Darwin's corollary; Herbicide resistance; Hybridization; Introgression; Weed evolution

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; DICOTYLEDON; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FECUNDITY; HERBICIDE; HYBRIDIZATION; INTROGRESSION; PESTICIDE RESISTANCE; POLLEN; SEED PRODUCTION; SWAMP;

AGRICULTURE; ALLELE; AMARANTHUS; ARTICLE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; HERBICIDE RESISTANCE; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HYBRIDIZATION; PLANT GENE; PLANT GENOME; PLANT SEED; POLLEN; REPRODUCTION; UNITED STATES;

AGRICULTURE; ALLELES; AMARANTHUS; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, PLANT; GENOME, PLANT; HERBICIDE RESISTANCE; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; POLLEN; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; REPRODUCTION; SEEDS; UNITED STATES;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

AMARANTHUS; AMARANTHUS HYBRIDUS; AMARANTHUS TUBERCULATUS;

EID: 70350078706     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2009.02979.x     Document Type: Article

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