The more the better? The role of polyploidy in facilitating plant invasions

Annals of Botany

Volumn 109, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 19-45

  Te Beest, Mariska ^a,b   Le Roux, Johannes J ^a   Richardson, David M ^a   Brysting, Anne K ^b   Suda, Jan ^c,d   Kubešová, Magdalena ^c,d   Pyšek, Petr ^c,d  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^d INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Biological invasions; genome size; invasion ecology; invasiveness; polyploidy; whole genome duplication

Indexed keywords

ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; COLONIZATION; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; FACILITATION; FITNESS; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; GENERATION TIME; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; GENOME; GENOMICS; HYBRIDIZATION; INTRODUCED SPECIES; INVASIVE SPECIES; PLANT; POLYPLOIDY; RESEARCH WORK; SEXUAL REPRODUCTION; SURVIVAL;

ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HYBRIDIZATION; INTRODUCED SPECIES; PLANT; PLANT GENOME; POLYPLOIDY; REVIEW;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; ECOSYSTEM; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, PLANT; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; INTRODUCED SPECIES; PLANTS; POLYPLOIDY;

EID: 84555178065     PISSN: 03057364     EISSN: 10958290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcr277     Document Type: Review

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