Genetic Diversity and Invasion Risk of Cultivated Plants
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Weed Science and Weed Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 July 2019) | Viewed by 3556
Special Issue Editors
Interests: cosmopolitan plants that tend to dominate the ecosystems; invasive species; intraspecific genetic and phenotypic variation; the role of gene flow and dispersal in the evolution and distribution of plants; adaptation to global change
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The trade of plants for agriculture and horticulture has introduced many species to new ranges. Some of these became invasive species while others did not. This Special Issue focuses on the evolutionary processes, including those induced by domestication, activated by the establishment of crops either within the native range of the wild progenitors or in new ranges. The aim is to identify genetic and functional traits, as well as evolutionary trajectories, that lead to invasiveness in cultivated plants, and to provide avenues to limit this risk. Genetic diversity plays a crucial role in adaptive processes and in the evolution of invasiveness, but it is poorly considered in sustainability and weed risk assessments, as well as in agriculture practices and laws. Therefore, it is omitted from decisions concerning the introduction of new plant accessions in agrosystems. The research on sustainable resources and the increasing interest in natural products are promoting the introduction of more and more new species to agriculture. This process has evolutionary consequences that will be evident only in the future. This issue collects case studies, reviews, and points of view documenting the invasion risk linked to newly introduced or genetically modified cultivated species in order to identify, through several case examples, which ecological, biological, and genetic traits have to be carefully considered and monitored. The following topics concerning cultivated potentially invasive plant species are welcome: (i) initial stage or monitoring of invasion; (ii) biological and ecological traits; (iii) genetic diversity; (iv) dispersal; (v) mating system and hybridization; (vi) ecological niche; (vii) decision support tools limiting invasion risk.
Dr. Carla Lambertini
Dr. Laurent Hardion
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- biological invasions
- weeds
- invasive crops
- genetics
- plant traits
- biology
- gene flow
- hybridization
- polyploidy
- reproduction
- dispersal
- adaptation
- ecology
- evolution
- assessment tools
