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The more the better? The role of polyploidy in facilitating plant invasions.
Annals of botany - 1 Jan 2012
te Beest Mariska, Le Roux Johannes J, Richardson David M, Brysting Anne K, Suda Jan, Kubesová Magdalena, Pysek Petr
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BACKGROUND: Biological invasions are a major ecological and socio-economic problem in many parts of the world. Despite an explosion of research in recent decades, much remains to be understood about why some species become invasive whereas others do not. Recently, polyploidy (whole genome duplication) has been proposed as an important determinant of invasiveness in plants. Genome duplication has played a major...
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