Inclusive fitness in agriculture

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 369, Issue 1642, 2014, Pages

  Kiers, E Toby ^a   Denison, R Ford ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Breeding; Cooperation; Darwinian agriculture; Hamilton; Symbiosis; Tragedy of the common

Indexed keywords

BREEDING; COMPETITIVENESS; CROP PLANT; CROP YIELD; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; INCLUSIVE FITNESS; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; KIN RECOGNITION; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; PLANT COMMUNITY; RESOURCE USE; SYMBIONT; SYMBIOSIS;

ARTICLE; BREEDING; COOPERATION; CROP; DARWINIAN AGRICULTURE; EVOLUTION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HAMILTON; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCORRHIZA; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS; RHIZOBIACEAE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SYMBIOSIS; TRAGEDY OF THE COMMONS;

BREEDING; COOPERATION; DARWINIAN AGRICULTURE; HAMILTON; SYMBIOSIS; TRAGEDY OF THE COMMONS;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BREEDING; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; GENETIC FITNESS; HUMANS; MYCORRHIZAE; RHIZOBIACEAE; SELECTION, GENETIC; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 84910019233     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2013.0367     Document Type: Review

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