Polyploidy is an important force shaping plant genomes. All flowering plants are
descendants of an ancestral polyploid species, and up to 70% of extant vascular plant …

McGrath et al., 2014; Scienski et al., 2015) revealed that many eukaryotes do indeed have a
polyploid ancestry. Although there have been recent debates on the average fate of …

Advances in recent years have revolutionized our understanding of both the context and
occurrence of polyploidy in plants. Molecular phylogenetics has vastly improved our …

The abundance of polyploidy among flowering plants has long been recognized, and recent
studies have uncovered multiple ancient polyploidization events in the evolutionary history …

Polyploidy, or the presence of two or more diploid parental genome sets within an organism,
is found to an amazing degree in higher plants. In addition, many plant species traditionally …

Enormous strides have been made in the study of polyploidy over the last 20 yr. Here, we
highlight some of these discoveries and note where our understanding of polyploid …

Polyploidy is widely acknowledged as a major mechanism of adaptation and speciation in
plants. Recent estimates suggest that 70% of all angiosperms have experienced one or …

Polyploidy, or whole genome multiplication, is ubiquitous among angiosperms. Many crop
species are relatively recent allopolyploids, resulting from interspecific hybridization and …

Whole genome duplication (WGD), which gives rise to polyploids, is a unique type of
mutation that duplicates all the genetic material in a genome. WGD provides an evolutionary …

Polyploidy, or whole genome duplication, is recognized as an important feature of eukaryotic
genome evolution. Among eukaryotes, polyploidy has probably had the largest evolutionary …