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Using hybrid systems to explore the evolution of tolerance to damage

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Hybridization is common and important to the adaptive evolution of plants. Hybridization has resulted in the formation of new species and the introgression of traits between species. This paper discusses the advantages of using hybrid systems to explore the evolution of tolerance to herbivore damage (i.e., the ability to diminish the negative effects of damage on fitness). The major consequence of hybridization likely to make it influential for tolerance evolution is that hybridization generates broad variation in traits that can be selected for or against. In addition to generating greater variation in tolerance to damage and its putative traits (e.g., traits associated with allocation patterns and meristem production), hybridization can generate greater independence among tolerance traits and between tolerance and defense traits. Greater independence may provide a greater ability to discern mechanisms of tolerance, give a greater probability of detecting allocation costs of tolerance, and provide an effective means to evaluate tradeoffs between tolerance and defense. Interspecific hybrid systems can also be used to evaluate the importance of co-adaptation of tolerance traits. Moreover, recombinant hybrids can be used in selection studies focusing on tolerance to damage to discern whether parental combinations of tolerance traits are favored over novel combinations. Research in hybrid systems that investigate the selective importance of tolerance, the patterns of inheritance of tolerance traits, and the genetic architecture of plant species involved can be vital to our evaluation of the adaptive role of tolerance to damage.

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    Cris G. Hochwender & Robert S. Fritz

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Hochwender, C.G., Fritz, R.S. & Orians, C.M. Using hybrid systems to explore the evolution of tolerance to damage. Evolutionary Ecology 14, 509–521 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1010846514418

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