Suzanne I. Warwick

TL;DR: Transgenes engineered into annual crops could be unintentionally introduced into the genomes of their free-living wild relatives and have negative ecological consequences.

TL;DR: Results from parsimony ratchet and Bayesian analyses recovered little support for the backbone of the phylogeny, suggesting that many lineages of Brassicaceae have undergone rapid radiations that may ultimately be difficult to resolve with any single locus.

TL;DR: A species checklist has been prepared for the Brassicaceae (Cruciferae) family, providing the first updated list in over 70 years.

TL;DR: It is suggested that the probability of gene flow from transgenic B. napus to R. raphanistrum to S. arvensis or E. gallicum is very low (<2–5 × 10–5) and transgenes can disperse in the environment via wild B. rapa in eastern Canada and possibly via commercial B.Rapa volunteers in western Canada.

TL;DR: Observations confirm the persistence of the HR trait over time, which occurred over a 6‐year period, in the absence of herbicide selection pressure, and in spite of the fitness cost associated with hybridization.