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Shifts in outcrossing rates and changes to floral traits are associated with the evolution of herbicide resistance in the common morning glory

Overview of attention for article published in Ecology Letters, November 2016
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Title
Shifts in outcrossing rates and changes to floral traits are associated with the evolution of herbicide resistance in the common morning glory
Published in
Ecology Letters, November 2016
DOI 10.1111/ele.12703
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Authors

Adam Kuester, Eva Fall, Shu‐Mei Chang, Regina S. Baucom

Abstract

Human-mediated selection can strongly influence the evolutionary response of natural organisms within ecological timescales. But what traits allow for, or even facilitate, adaptation to the strong selection humans impose on natural systems? Using a combination of laboratory and greenhouse studies of 32 natural populations of the common agricultural weed, Ipomoea purpurea, we show that herbicide-resistant populations self-fertilise more than susceptible populations. We likewise show that anther-stigma distance, a floral trait associated with self-fertilisation in this species, exhibits a nonlinear relationship with resistance such that the most and least resistant populations exhibit lower anther-stigma separation compared to populations with moderate levels of resistance. Overall, our results extend the general finding that plant mating can be impacted by human-mediated agents of selection to that of the extreme selection of the agricultural system. This work highlights the influence of human-mediated selection on rapid responses of natural populations that can lead to unexpected long-term evolutionary consequences.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 1 1%
Serbia 1 1%
Unknown 80 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 21 26%
Student > Master 15 18%
Researcher 12 15%
Student > Bachelor 6 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 4 5%
Other 9 11%
Unknown 15 18%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 48 59%
Environmental Science 10 12%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 4 5%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 1%
Psychology 1 1%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 18 22%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 72. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 18 February 2021.
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#598,351
of 25,525,181 outputs
Outputs from Ecology Letters
#277
of 3,124 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#12,152
of 416,847 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Ecology Letters
#6
of 29 outputs
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