Why are invasive plants successful?

M Gioria, PE Hulme, DM Richardson… - Annual Review of Plant …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Plant invasions, a byproduct of globalization, are increasing worldwide. Because of their
ecological and economic impacts, considerable efforts have been made to understand and …

Epigenetics and the success of invasive plants

J Mounger, ML Ainouche… - … of the Royal …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Biological invasions impose ecological and economic problems on a global scale, but also
provide extraordinary opportunities for studying contemporary evolution. It is critical to …

Detect thy family: mechanisms, ecology and agricultural aspects of kin recognition in plants

NPR Anten, BJW Chen - Plant, Cell & Environment, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The phenomenon that organisms can distinguish genetically related individuals from
strangers (ie, kin recognition) and exhibit more cooperative behaviours towards their …

Kin selection, kin recognition and kin discrimination in plants revisited: A claim for considering environmental and genetic variability

L Mazal, A Fajardo, I Till‐Bottraud… - Plant, Cell & …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Kin selection, kin recognition and kin discrimination in plants revisited: A claim for considering
environmental and genetic variability - Mazal - 2023 - Plant, Cell & Environment - Wiley Online …

The distribution of invasive alien plant species in peri-urban areas: A case study from the city of Kolkata

S Chatterjee, A Dewanji - Community Ecology, 2024 - Springer
Urbanization results in rapid land transformations impacting bio-diversity and ecosystem
services. With urban expansions population transition will predominantly occur in the peri …

Toward unifying evolutionary ecology and genomics to understand positive plant–plant interactions within wild species

HJ Subrahmaniam, D Roby, F Roux - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2021 - frontiersin.org
In a local environment, plant networks include interactions among individuals of different
species and among genotypes of the same species. While interspecific interactions are …

High genetic diversity in the clonal aquatic weed Alternanthera philoxeroides in the United States

DA Williams, NE Harms, IA Knight… - Invasive Plant Science …, 2020 - cambridge.org
The distribution of genetic diversity in invasive plant populations can have important
management implications. Alligatorweed [Alternanthera philoxeroides (Mart.) Griseb.] was …

Arbuscular mycorrhiza increases the facilitation between adult plant and seedling but root‐knot nematode inhibits it

L Wang, X Zhou, Z Tang - Ecosphere, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Soil biotic and abiotic factors can affect the interaction between invasive and native species.
However, it is not yet clear how arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) symbiosis affects the interaction …

From competition to cooperation: Kin selection against selfish shade avoidance behaviour promotes plant invasions

L Chen, Y Pan, X Pan, L Yu, A Sosa, J Yang… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
There is conflicting evidence from studies on the fitness consequences of plant kin
interactions, suggesting that kinship is not the only important factor in determining the …

Mother knows best: plant polyploidy affects feeding and oviposition preference of the alligator weed biological control agent, Agasicles hygrophila

P Krug, AJ Sosa - BioControl, 2019 - Springer
Abstract Alligator weed (Alternanthera philoxeroides (Martius) Grisebach) is an amphibious
invasive plant native to South America. It is an allopolyploid that, in Argentina, possess two …