Interspecific hybridization in plants is an important evolutionary phenomenon involved in the
dynamics of speciation that receives increasing interest in the context of possible gene …

Breeding programs aiming at transferring desirable genes from one species to another
through interspecific hybridization and backcrossings often produce monosomic and …

A recent report demonstrates that entire nuclear genomes can be transferred between plant
cells and across the graft junction, resulting in the formation of a new allopolyploid species …

Site-specific recombination has been developed into a genetic engineering tool for higher
eukaryotes. The manipulation of newly introduced DNA is now possible in the course of …

Wide or distant hybridization has been widely used as an important tool of chromosome
manipulation for crop improvement. The chromosome behaviors in F 1 hybrids provide us …

Hybridization in plants and animals is more common and has more complex outcomes than
previously realized. Genome-wide analyses of introgression in organisms ranging from oaks …

To date, regional surveys assessing the risk of transgene escape from GM crops have
focused on records of spontaneous hybridization to infer the likelihood of crop transgene …

The earliest report of an interspecific hybrid in plants is credited to Thomas Fairchild who in
1717 crossed carnation (Dianthus caryophyllus) and sweet-william (D. barbatus)(Allard …

It is now well recognised that closely related species can hybridize and exchange genetic
material, which may promote or oppose adaptation and speciation. In some cases …

Intrachromosomal homologous recombination in whole tobacco plants was analyzed using
β-glucuronidase as non-selectable marker. We found that recombination frequencies were …