Polyploidy is defined as an increase in genome DNA content. Throughout the plant and
animal kingdoms specific cell types become polyploid as part of their differentiation …

Polyploidy is an intriguing phenomenon in plants that has provided an important pathway for
evolution and speciation. Although the first polyploid was discovered over a century ago, the …

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 …

It is well known that polyploidy is a major force in evolution, particularly in plants. Perhaps
50% of all angiosperms are of polyploid origin; estimates for the ferns and fern allies range …

In 1950, G. Ledyard Stebbins devoted two chapters of his book Variation and Evolution in
Plants (Columbia Univ. Press, New York) to polyploidy, one on occurrence and nature and …

Polyploidy, the condition of possessing more than 2 complete chromosome sets in the same
nucleus, is frequent in nature and has implications for a species' prospects for evolution …

Polyploidy is an evolutionary process whereby two or more genomes are brought together
into the same nucleus, usually by hybridization followed by chromosome doubling. As a …

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 …

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 has been widely appreciated as an important force in the evolution of plant
genomes, but now it is recognized as a common phenomenon throughout eukaryotic …