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 …

The last decade highlighted polyploidy as a rampant evolutionary process that triggers
drastic genome reorganization, but much remains to be understood about their causes and …

Background Camellia is an economically and phylogenetically important genus in the family
Theaceae. Owing to numerous hybridization and polyploidization, it is taxonomically and …

Hybridization brings together chromosome sets from two or more distinct progenitor species.
Genome duplication associated with hybridization, or allopolyploidy, allows these …

Population genetics is fundamental to our understanding of evolution, and mutations are
essential raw materials for evolution. In this introduction to more detailed papers that follow …

The chloroplast genome originated from photosynthetic organisms and has retained the
core genes that mainly encode components of photosynthesis. However, the causes of …

Cotton is one of the most economically important fiber crop plants worldwide. The genus
Gossypium contains a single allotetraploid group (AD) and eight diploid genome groups (A …

Genome sizes vary considerably across all eukaryotes and even among closely related
species. The genesis and evolutionary dynamics of that variation have generated …

Polyploid formation and processes that create partial genomic duplication generate
redundant genomic information, whose fate is of particular interest to evolutionary biologists …

We present an overview of Gossypium genome evolution and the implications of this
understanding for targeted breeding objectives. The cotton genus (Gossypium) contains …