ReviewAnnals of botany2012
The more the better? The role of polyploidy in facilitating plant invasions.
Review in Annals of botany, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 276 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Whole-Genome Duplication Reshapes Adaptation: Autotetraploid Arabidopsis arenosa Leverages its High Genetic Variation to Compensate for Selection Constraints.Molecular biology and evolution · 2025Article
- Multiomics analysis of cassava with different ploidy levels in response toTetranychus cinnabarinus.BMC plant biology · 2025Article
- Whole genome duplication drives transcriptome reprogramming in response to drought in alfalfa.Plant cell reports · 2025Article
- Insect visitation patterns in diploid Centaurea aspera and its related allotetraploid and triploid hybrids: Similar rates but distinct assemblages.American journal of botany · 2025Article
- The Remarkable Increase in the Invasive Autumn Fern,Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Can ploidy changes propel the evolution of allogamy in a selfing species complex?BMC plant biology · 2025Article
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7 authors at 4 institutions in 4 countries.
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Abstract
backgroundBiological 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 to be understood about why some species become invasive whereas others do not. Recently, polyploidy (whole genome duplication) has been proposed as an important determinant of invasiveness in plants. Genome duplication has played a major role in plant evolution and can drastically alter a plant's genetic make-up, morphology, physiology and ecology within only one or a few generations. This may allow some polyploids to succeed in strongly fluctuating environments and/or effectively colonize new habitats and, thus, increase their potential to be invasive. SCOPE: We synthesize current knowledge on the importance of polyploidy for the invasion (i.e. spread) of introduced plants. We first aim to elucidate general mechanisms that are involved in the success of polyploid plants and translate this to that of plant invaders. Secondly, we provide an overview of ploidal levels in selected invasive alien plants and explain how ploidy might have contributed to their success.
conclusionsPolyploidy can be an important factor in species invasion success through a combination of (1) 'pre-adaptation', whereby polyploid lineages are predisposed to conditions in the new range and, therefore, have higher survival rates and fitness in the earliest establishment phase; and (2) the possibility for subsequent adaptation due to a larger genetic diversity that may assist the 'evolution of invasiveness'. Alternatively, polyploidization may play an important role by (3) restoring sexual reproduction following hybridization or, conversely, (4) asexual reproduction in the absence of suitable mates. We, therefore, encourage invasion biologists to incorporate assessments of ploidy in their studies of invasive alien species.
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