Hybridization, polyploidy and invasion: lessons from Spartina (Poaceae)

By M. Ainouche, P. Fortune, A. Salmon, Christian Parisod, M. Grandbastien, K. Fukunaga, M. Ricou, M. Misset. Biological Invasions, 2009

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Ecological and Evolutionary Misadventures of Spartina (2013, unknown): “Redrawn from Ainouche et al. (2009).”
Introgression between invasive saltcedars (Tamarix chinensis and T. ramosissima) in the USA (2009, background): “Infamous recent examples include marsh grasses in the genus Spartina (Ainouche et al. 2008; Sloop et al. 2008), the freshwater aquatic plant Myriophyllum spp. (Moody and Les 2002), and the Brazilian pepper tree (Schinus terebinthifolius; Williams et al. 2005).”
Next-Generation Sequencing — An Overview of the History, Tools, and “Omic” Applications (2016, background): “Wheat, after millennia of hybridization and modification by humans, has strains that are diploid (2 sets of chromosomes), tetraploid (4 sets of chromosomes), and hexaploid (6 sets of chromosomes) [222, 223], whereas the invasive weed Spartina anglica has up to 12 sets of chromosomes [224].”
Hitting the right target: taxonomic challenges for, and of, plant invasions (2013, background): “Spartina anglica, a hybrid taxon that arose through allopolyploidization, is the classic example (Thompson 1991; Ainouche et al. 2009).”
The more the better? The role of polyploidy in facilitating plant invasions. (2012, background): “Most are native to the New World, and until the 19th century S. maritima was the only known native species in the Old World, where it grows along the European and African Atlantic coast (Mobberley, 1956; Baumel et al., 2002; Ainouche et al., 2009).”