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

Abstract Oryza (23 species; 10 genome types) contains the world's most important food crop—
rice. Although the rice genome serves as an essential tool for biological research, little is …

Ginseng represents a set of high-value medicinal plants of different species: Panax ginseng
(Asian ginseng), Panax quinquefolius (American ginseng), Panax notoginseng (Chinese …

Flowering plants serve as a powerful model for studying the evolution of nuclear genome
size (GS) given the tremendous GS variation that exists both within and across angiosperm …

Background The genus Camellia, belonging to the family Theaceae, is economically
important group in flowering plants. Frequent interspecific hybridization together with …

Background Cotton (Gossypium spp.) is a model system for the analysis of polyploidization.
Although ascertaining the donor species of allotetraploid cotton has been intensively …

The cotton genus (Gossypium spp.) contains 8 monophyletic diploid genome groups (A, B,
C, D, E, F, G, K) and a single allotetraploid clade (AD). To gain insight into the phylogeny of …

The lack of correlation between genome size and organismal complexity has long been a
topic of great interest. Over the last decade it has become clear that transposable elements …

不同的真核生物之间基因组大小差异很大, 并与生物体复杂性不相关, 在基因组中存在大量的非
编码DNA 序列是造成这种差异的主要原因, 特别是转座子序列. 文章综述了植物基因组大小差异 …

Background Plant pollen has diverse morphological characteristics that can be consistently
passed down from generation to generation. Information on pollen morphology is thus …