Hybridization may drive rare taxa to extinction through genetic swamping, where the rare
form is replaced by hybrids, or by demographic swamping, where population growth rates …

Plant conservation genetics provides tools to guide conservation and restoration efforts,
measure and monitor success, and ultimately minimize extinction risk by conserving species …

• Premise of the study: Analyses of genetic structure and phylogenetic relationships
illuminate the origin and domestication of modern crops. Despite being an important …

The evolutionary significance of introgression has been discussed for decades. Questions
about potential impacts of transgene flow into wild and weedy populations brought renewed …

This book compiles the latest science and technology in the processing and preservation of
vegetables and vegetable products. Vegetables are an important article of commerce for …

Trait-based ecology predicts that evolution in high-resource agricultural environments
should select for suites of traits that enable fast resource acquisition and rapid canopy …

Background Understanding the molecular basis of domestication can provide insights into
the processes of rapid evolution and crop improvement. Here we demonstrated the …

The recurrent evolution of crop‐related weeds during agricultural history raises serious
economic problems and challenging scientific questions. Weedy forms of sunflower, a …

Genes regularly move within species, to/from crops, as well as to their con‐specific
progenitors, feral and weedy forms ('vertical'gene flow). Genes occasionally move to/from …

PREMISE: Wild sunflowers harbor considerable genetic diversity and are a major resource
for improvement of the cultivated sunflower, Helianthus annuus. The Helianthus genus is …