Climate change is altering the availability of resources and the conditions that are crucial to
plant performance. One way plants will respond to these changes is through …

Over the past twenty years conservation genetics has progressed from being mainly a theory-
based field of population biology to a full-grown empirical discipline. Technological …

Abstract Changes in environmental conditions can rapidly shift allele frequencies in
populations of species with relatively short generation times. Frequency shifts might be …

Conservation genetics focuses on understanding the role and requirement of genetic
variation for population persistence. However, considerable debate now surrounds the role …

Global change (climate change together with other worldwide anthropogenic processes
such as increasing trade, air pollution and urbanization) will affect plant health at the …

The response of plant disease to weather variables such as temperature and precipitation is
well known and has been the basis for disease forecasting models used in decision-making …

Grapevines are cultivated on six out of seven continents, between latitudes 4° and 51° in the
Northern Hemisphere and between latitudes 6° and 45° in the Southern Hemisphere across …

Background New methods are needed for research into non-model organisms, to monitor
the effects of toxic disruption at both the molecular and functional organism level. We …

Current research into plant invasiveness often attempts to predict the effect of invasions
under future climate change, but most studies only focus on ecological aspects …

Allopolyploidy results from two events: the merger of divergent genomes and genome
duplication. Both events have important functional consequences for the evolution and …