In this chapter some of the salient features of polyploidy in plants, including a brief
description of its prevalence and modes of formation are discussed. Several model systems …

Genome doubling (polyploidy) has been and continues to be a pervasive force in plant
evolution. Modern plant genomes harbor evidence of multiple rounds of past …

Deciphering the global distribution of polyploid plants is fundamental for understanding
plant evolution and ecology. Many factors have been hypothesized to affect the uneven …

• Premise of the study: Hybridization and polyploidization (allopolyploidy) are ubiquitous in
the evolution of plants, but tracing the origins and subsequent evolution of the constituent …

Polyploidy, or whole-genome duplication (WGD), is an important genomic feature for all
eukaryotes, especially many plants and some animals. The common occurrence of …

Allopolyploidy is a prominent mode of speciation in higher plants. Due to the coexistence of
closely related genomes, a successful allopolyploid must have the ability to invoke and …

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 …

Polyploidy is produced by multiplication of a single genome (autopolyploid) or combination
of two or more divergent genomes (allopolyploid). The available data obtained from the …

Almost all extant plant species have doubled their genomes at least once in their
evolutionary histories, resulting in polyploidy which provided a rich genomic resource for …

Despite the importance of polyploidy and the increasing availability of new genomic data,
there remain important gaps in our knowledge of polyploid population genetics. These gaps …