Do hybrids help a plant expand their range, or do they get in the way?
While hybrid plants might be less successful than their parents, if enough survive they can backcross with a parent species. This can help a parent colonise a new territory.
Tag: hybrid zone
Greater Eucalyptus hybridisation on younger, more disturbed landscapes
Older landscapes are expected to be home to older, more genetically well-defined taxa with greater reproductive barriers.
Trait variation across a plant hybrid zone 25 years in the making
Maintenance of plant species cohesion despite ongoing hybridization
When species cohesion is maintained despite ongoing natural hybridisation.
Floral volatiles in Ipomopsis hybrids
A study of potential scent mediation of prezygotic and postzygotic reproductive isolation in Ipomopsis aggregata and I. tenuituba.