Polypoid species play significant roles in agriculture and food production. Many crop
species are polyploid, such as potato, wheat, strawberry, and sugarcane. Genotyping has …

Polyploidy is a major evolutionary force that has shaped plant diversity. However, the
various pathways toward polyploid formation and interploidy gene flow remain poorly …

Sour cherry (Prunus cerasus L.) is a valuable fruit crop in the Rosaceae family and a hybrid
between progenitors closely related to extant Prunus fruticosa (ground cherry) and Prunus …

Polyploidization is a widespread phenomenon, especially in flowering plants that have all
undergone at least one event of whole genome duplication during their evolutionary history …

Fertilization of flowering plants requires the organization of complex tasks, many of which
become integrated by the female gametophyte (FG). The FG is a few-celled haploid structure …

Meiosis is an ancestral, highly conserved process in eukaryotic life cycles, and for all
eukaryotes the shared component of sexual reproduction. The benefits and functions of …

Para rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensis) is an important economic species as it is the sole
commercial producer of high-quality natural rubber. Here, we report a de novo hybrid …

A rapidly increasing body of work is revealing that the genomes of distinct species often
exhibit hybrid ancestry, presumably due to postspeciation hybridization between closely …

Serpentine soils exhibit extreme properties (eg high magnesium content) influencing plant
growth and survival, and have been repeatedly documented to promote adaptive edaphic …

Polyploidy is one of the most important evolutionary processes in plants. In natural
populations, polyploids usually emerge from unreduced gametes which either fuse with …