Invasiveness

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Food Biotechnology

Ability of a plant to spread beyond its introduction site and become established in new locations where it may provide a deliterious effect on organisms already existing there.

Susan Allender-Hagedorn and Charles Hagedorn — An Agricultural and Environmental Biotechnology Annotated Dictionary

The ability of a plant, particularly a weed, to spread beyond its presently established site, and become established in new locations.

UN Food and Agriculture Organization — Glossary of Biotechnology for Food and Agriculture