Abstract:More and more attention has been paid to invasive plants and their impact on native species, communities, and ecosystems. Prediction of the invasive potentials of alien species is an important subject in invasion ecology. Since the 1990s, most literature on predicting weediness or invasiveness of plants has focused on the characteristics of the plant, or on the invaded environment. Unfortunately, there has been no satisfactory answer about what attributes make some species more invasive. At the cellular lev...