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Effects of competition on the fitness of wild and crop-wild hybrid sunflower from a diversity of wild populations and crop lines.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Oct 2006
Mercer Kristin L, Wyse Donald L, Shaw Ruth G
Abstract excerpt
Gene flow between crop fields and wild populations often results in hybrids with reduced fitness compared to their wild counterparts due to characteristics imparted by the crop genome. But the specifics of the evolutionary outcome of crop-wild gene flow may depend on context, varying due to local environmental conditions and genetic variation within and among wild populations and among crop lines. To evaluate...
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