Whole genome duplication is a prominent feature of many highly evolved organisms,
especially plants. When duplications occur within species, they yield genomes comprising …

Contents Summary 87 I. Introduction 87 II. Evolution in action: subgenome dominance within
newly formed hybrids and polyploids 88 III. Summary and future directions 90 …

Highlights•Whole genome duplications are an important mode of plant evolution.•Plants
evolve developmental novelties by retention of duplicated control genes.•Genes controlling …

All crop plants are polyploid and some genomes have been duplicated more recently than
others. Advancements in cytogenetic and molecular tools, including high‐density genetic …

During the past decade there has been a tremendous resurgence of interest in polyploidy
that has in large part been stimulated by the development of increasingly powerful genetic …

Polyploidy as a dramatic mutational event in the process of evolution has wide implications
in nature and for the generation of new and improved crops. The three day Conference on …

Polyploids are common and arise frequently by genome duplication (autopolyploids) or
interspecific hybridization (allopolyploids). Neoallopolyploids display sterility, lethality …

Polyploidy is a major force in plant evolution and speciation. In newly formed allopolyploids,
pairing between related chromosomes from different subgenomes (homoeologous …

Whole-genome duplications happen repeatedly in a typical flowering plant lineage.
Following most ancient tetraploidies, the two subgenomes are distinguishable because one …

Autopolyploidy is more common in plants than traditionally assumed, but has received little
attention compared with allopolyploidy. Hence, the advantages and disadvantages of …