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

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 …

Background Throughout the past century, hybridization and polyploidization have variously
been viewed as drivers of biodiversity (eg Arnold, 1997) or evolutionary noise, unimportant …

The prevalence of autopolyploids in angiosperms has long been a subject of debate.
Müntzing (1936) and Darlington (1937) concluded that autopolyploids were common and …

Transposable elements (TEs) represent an important fraction of plant genomes and are
likely to play a pivotal role in fuelling genome reorganization and functional changes …

Polyploidy, or whole‐genome duplication often with hybridization, is common in eukaryotes
and is thought to drive ecological and evolutionary success, especially in plants. The …

One little understood feature of polyploid speciation is the transition from polysomic to
disomic inheritance, and much recent attention has focused on the role of pairing genes in …

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 …

Polyploidy has extensive genetic, physiological, morphological, and ecological
ramifications. While the patterns underlying the genetic and morphological consequences of …

• 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 …