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Is there a trade-off between host generalism and aggressiveness across pathogen populations? A synthesis of the global potato and tomato blight lesion growth data
Phytophthora infestans populations and lineages vary widely in their specificity to potato and tomato hosts, from specialisation to generalism. However, generalists that displace others and became dominant on bot...
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Warming significantly inhibited the competitive advantage of native plants in interspecific competition under phosphorus deposition
Global warming, phosphorus deposition, and biological invasion have become major environmental problems. Most studies have analyzed the main factors for the success of invasive plants under a single global cha...
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Indigenous PGPB Inoculant from Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau Soil Confer Drought-Stress Tolerance to Local Grass Poa annua
Grassland degradation in Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (QTP) is becoming a serious environmental problem which has attracted widespread public attention. Application of plant growth promoting bacteria (PGPB) inocula...
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Pathogen resistance in Sphagneticola trilobata (Singapore daisy): molecular associations and differentially expressed genes in response to disease from a widespread fungus
Understanding the molecular associations underlying pathogen resistance in invasive plant species is likely to provide useful insights into the effective control of alien plants, thereby facilitating the conse...
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Warming matters: alpine plant responses to experimental warming
Climate change has pronounced impacts on plants, particularly in environments vulnerable to warming such as alpine zones. Although plant responses in tundra and alpine environments from high latitudes have bee...
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Latitudinal shifts in mangrove species worldwide: evidence from historical occurrence records
Consequences of global climate change on mangrove habitats are ambiguous owing to multifaceted factors. In this study, we examined historical occurrences of ten common mangrove species and quantified the rate ...
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Genus-level change in aggressiveness with continuous invasions: a phylogenetically-informed Bayesian quantile regression
Phytophthora is a genus of oomycete plant pathogens consisting of numerous invaders of production and natural systems. To date, only few studies assessed how invasions change over time, and none have examined cha...
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Allelopathy confers an invasive Wedelia higher resistance to generalist herbivore and pathogen enemies over its native congener
The Novel Defense Hypothesis predicts that introduced plants may possess novel allelochemicals which act as a defense against native generalist enemies. Here, we aim to test if the chemicals involved in allelo...
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The invasion triangle in the range dynamics of invasive species following successful establishment
A wide range of factors drive the processes responsible for range dynamics following a successful invasion. These drive changes to the demographic and genetic qualities of the invasive species, potentially wit...
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Does the Cost of Adaptation to Extremely Stressful Environments Diminish Over Time? A Literature Synthesis on How Plants Adapt to Heavy Metals and Pesticides
Populations adapted to locally stressful environmental conditions are predicted to carry costs in performance and fitness, particularly when compared to non-stress adapted populations in the absence of stress....
