Background Biological invasions are a major ecological and socio-economic problem in
many parts of the world. Despite an explosion of research in recent decades, much remains …

Autopolyploidy is more common in plants than traditionally assumed, but has received little
attention compared with allopolyploidy. Hence, the advantages and disadvantages of …

Polyploidy is a mutation with profound phenotypic consequences and thus hypothesized to
have transformative effects in plant ecology. This is most often considered in the context of …

Plants exhibit adaptive responses to light, but it is not known whether parental plants
transmit environmental cues that elicit adaptive responses in offspring. We show that …

The duplication of an entire genome is no small affair. Whole genome duplication (WGD) is
a dramatic mutation with long-lasting effects, yet it occurs repeatedly in all eukaryotic …

Polyploid organisms carry more than two copies of each chromosome, a condition rarely
tolerated in animals but which occurs relatively frequently in the plant kingdom. One of the …

In outcrossing plants, seed dispersal distance is often less than pollen movement. If the
scale of environmental heterogeneity within a population is greater than typical seed …

Inbreeding is common in plants and can have considerable effects on population viability,
because of inbreeding depression. Understanding what determines the magnitude of …

Hermaphroditic individuals can produce both selfed and outcrossed progeny, termed mixed
mating. General theory predicts that mixed‐mating populations should evolve quickly toward …

Habitat fragmentation and climate change are recognized as major threats to biodiversity.
The major challenge for present day plant populations is how to adapt and cope with altered …