Polyploidy or whole genome duplication (WGD) occurs throughout the evolutionary history
of many plants and some animals, including crops such as wheat, cotton, and sugarcane …

The evolutionary fate of polyploids (especially plants) immediately following their formation
has recently received renewed attention by several research groups. An increasing body of …

Polyploidy is a key mechanism of genome evolution and speciation, particularly in plants.
Many aspects of polyploidy have been elucidated with the tools that have become available …

Polyploidization, the addition of a complete set of chromosomes to the genome, represents
one of the most dramatic mutations known to occur. Nevertheless, polyploidy is well …

Polyploidization is an important mechanism for introducing diversity into a population and
promoting evolutionary change. It is believed that most, if not all, angiosperms have …

Polyploidy, the multiplication of chromosome sets above the diploid state, is arguably as
prevalent in plants as any other eukaryotic group. Over the past century, polyploidy has …

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 …

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 a common event in plants that involves the acquisition of more than two
complete sets of chromosomes. Allopolyploidy originates from interspecies hybrids while …

In spite of their success during the past several millions of years, recent analyses indicate
that polyploid species may have higher extinction rates than their diploid relatives. The idea …