Polyploidy has played a pivotal and recurring role in angiosperm evolution. Allotetraploids
arise from hybridization between species and possess duplicated gene copies (homeologs) …

Targeted sequence capture is a promising technology in many areas in biology. These
methods enable efficient and relatively inexpensive sequencing of hundreds to thousands of …

Allopolyploidization, that is, concomitant merging and doubling of two or more divergent
genomes in a common nucleus/cytoplasm, is known to instantly alter genomewide …

Whole genome duplication (polyploidy) represents a primary mechanism of sympatric
speciation, especially in plants where it is particularly prevalent. In this chapter, we focus on …

We profiled the global gene expression landscape across the reproductive lifecycle of
Brassica napus. Comparative analysis of this nascent amphidiploid revealed the …

Like those of many agricultural crops, the cultivated cotton is an allotetraploid and has a
large genome (~ 2.5 gigabase pairs). The two sub genomes, A and D, are highly similar but …

In this study, we report the assembly and annotation of five reference transcriptomes for the
European hexaploid Spartina species (S. maritima, S. alterniflora and their homoploid …

Background Genes duplicated by polyploidy (homoeologs) may be differentially expressed
in plant tissues. Recent research using DNA microarrays and RNAseq data have described …

Virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS) is an RNA-mediated reverse genetics technique that
has become an effective tool to investigate gene function in plants. Cotton is one of the most …

Key message We report rampant homoeologous exchanges in progenies of a newly
synthesized rice segmental allotetraploid and demonstrate their consequences to changes …