As populations become increasingly fragmented, managers are often faced with the
dilemma that intentional hybridization might save a population from inbreeding depression …

Abstract Background and Aims The amount of DNA in an unreplicated gametic chromosome
complement is known as the C-value and is a key biodiversity character of fundamental …

Ecological factors, hybrid sterility and differences in ploidy levels are well known for
contributing to gene-flow barriers in plants. Another common postzygotic incompatibility …

When previously isolated populations meet and mix, the resulting admixed population can
benefit from several genetic advantages, including increased genetic variation, the creation …

Restoration is normally conducted with the goal of creating plant populations that establish,
survive, successfully reproduce, contribute to ecosystem function and persist in the long …

Understanding the molecular basis of how new species arise is a central question and prime
challenge in evolutionary biology and includes understanding how genomes diversify …

Understanding the effects of inbreeding and genetic drift within populations and
hybridization between genetically differentiated populations is important for many basic and …

Although organelle inheritance is predominantly maternal across animals and plants,
biparental chloroplast inheritance has arisen multiple times in the angiosperms. Biparental …

Maternal effects are ubiquitous in nature. In plants, most work has focused on the effects of
maternal environments on offspring trait expression. Less is known about the prevalence of …

Genetic incompatibility is a hallmark of speciation. Cytonuclear incompatibilities are
proposed to be among the first genetic barriers to arise during speciation. Accordingly …