Invasion Success by Plant Breeding Evolutionary Changes as a Critical Factor for the Invasion of the Ornamental Plant Mahonia aquifolium /

• Main Author: Ross, Christel Anne (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wiesbaden : Vieweg+Teubner, 2009.
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Plant breeding.; Life Sciences.; Plant Breeding/Biotechnology.

Invasive species are a major threat to global biodiversity and cause significant economic costs. Studying biological invasions is both essential for preventing future invasions and is also useful in order to understand basic ecological processes. Christel Ross investigates whether evolutionary chang...

Table of Contents:

• Isolation and characterisation of microsatellite markers in the invasive shrub Mahonia aquifolium (Berberidaceae) and their applicability in related species
• Genetic relationships among three native North-American Mahonia species, invasive Mahonia populations from Europe, and commercial cultivars
• Invasive Mahonia plants outgrow their native relatives
• Mahonia invasions in different habitats: local adaptation or general-purpose genotypes?.