ReviewHeredity2013
The red queen in the corn: agricultural weeds as models of rapid adaptive evolution.
Review in Heredity, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 52 papers.
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52 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Chromosome-level genome assembly of Cyperus iria, an aggressive weed of rice.Scientific data · 2025Article
- Genomic variation, environmental adaptation, and feralization in ramie, an ancient fiber crop.Plant communications · 2024Article
- Current status of community resources and priorities for weed genomics research.Genome biology · 2024Review
- Complete Chloroplast Genome ofGenes · 2024Article
- Weed biology and management in the multi-omics era: Progress and perspectives.Plant communications · 2024Review
- Transcriptomic analysis provides insight into the genetic regulation of shade avoidance in Aegilops tauschii.BMC plant biology · 2023Article
- Seed Bank Community under Different-Intensity Agrophytocenoses on Hilly Terrain in Lithuania.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Weed genomics: yielding insights into the genetics of weedy traits for crop improvement.aBIOTECH · 2023Review
- The blackgrass genome reveals patterns of non-parallel evolution of polygenic herbicide resistance.The New phytologist · 2023Article
- Common evolutionary trajectory of short life-cycle in Brassicaceae ruderal weeds.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Agronomic and Environmental Determinants of Direct Seeded Rice in South Asia.Circular economy and sustainability · 2023Review
- Evolution of weedy giant ragweed (Ecology and evolution · 2022Article
- Allelopathic Potential of Mangroves from the Red River Estuary against the Rice WeedPlants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Different Responses of Invasive WeedLife (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- De novo assembly provides new insights into the evolution of Elaeagnus angustifolia L.Plant methods · 2022Article
- Travel Tales of a Worldwide Weed: Genomic Signatures ofFrontiers in plant science · 2022Article
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Abstract
Weeds are among the greatest pests of agriculture, causing billions of dollars in crop losses each year. As crop field management practices have changed over the past 12 000 years, weeds have adapted in turn to evade human removal. This evolutionary change can be startlingly rapid, making weeds an appealing system to study evolutionary processes that occur over short periods of time. An understanding of how weeds originate and adapt is needed for successful management; however, relatively little emphasis has been placed on genetically characterizing these systems. Here, we review the current literature on agricultural weed origins and their mechanisms of adaptation. Where possible, we have included examples that have been genetically well characterized. Evidence for three possible, non-mutually exclusive weed origins (from wild species, crop-wild hybrids or directly from crops) is discussed with respect to what is known about the microevolutionary signatures that result from these processes. We also discuss what is known about the genetic basis of adaptive traits in weeds and the range of genetic mechanisms that are responsible. With a better understanding of genetic mechanisms underlying adaptation in weedy species, we can address the more general process of adaptive evolution and what can be expected as we continue to apply selective pressures in agroecosystems around the world.
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