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The costs and benefits of tolerance to competition in ipomoea purpurea, the common morning glory.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Jun 2014
Chaney Lindsay, Baucom Regina S
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Tolerance to competition has been hypothesized to reduce the negative impact of plant-plant competition on fitness. Although competitive interactions are a strong selective force, an analysis of net selection on tolerance to competition is absent in the literature. Using 55 full/half-sibling families from 18 maternal lines in the crop weed Ipomoea purpurea, we measured fitness and putative tolerance traits when...
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