The main environmental concerns about genetically modified (GM) crops are the potential
weediness or invasiveness in the crop itself or in its wild or weedy relatives as a result of …

One of the concerns raised over the introduction of genetically modified crops is that
transgenes will invade populations of wild relatives, causing ecologically significant …

Allotetraploid oilseed rape (Brassica napus L.) is an agriculturally important crop. Cultivation
and breeding of B. napus by humans has resulted in numerous genetically diverse …

The worldwide commercial cultivation of genetically modified (GM) crops has raised
concerns about potential adverse effects on the environment resulting from the use of these …

The outcome of natural hybridization is highly variable and depends on the nonexclusive
effects of both pre‐and post‐mating reproductive barriers. The objective of this study was to …

After a decade of transgenic crop production, the dynamics of gene introgression into wild
relatives remain unclear. Taking an ecological genetics approach to investigating fitness in …

Crop‐wild hybridization may produce offspring with lower fitness than their wild parents due
to deleterious crop traits and outbreeding depression. Over time, however, selection for …

Early-generation hybrid fitness is difficult to interpret because heterosis can obscure the
effects of hybrid breakdown. We used controlled reciprocal crosses and common garden …

In nature, interspecific hybridization occurs frequently and can contribute to the production of
new species or the introgression of beneficial adaptive features between species. It has …

Numerous studies have focused on the probability of occurrence of gene flow between
transgenic crops and their wild relatives and the likelihood of transgene escape, which …