Plasticity-mediated persistence and subsequent local adaptation in a global agricultural weed.

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Phenotypic plasticity can alter traits that are crucial to population establishment in a new environment before adaptation can occur. How often phenotypic plasticity enables subsequent adaptive evolution is unknown, and examples of the phenomenon are limited. We investigated the hypothesis of plasticity-mediated persistence as a means of colonization of agricultural fields in one of the world's worst weeds,...

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• Adaptation, Biological
• Adaptation, Physiological
• Agriculture
• Ecotype
• Phenotype