Background The growing wealth of knowledge on whole-plant genome sequences is
highlighting the key role of transposable elements (TEs) in plant evolution, as a driver of …

Nearly four decades ago, Roose & Gottlieb (Roose & Gottlieb 1976 Evolution 30, 818–
830.(doi: 10.2307/2407821)) showed that the recently derived allotetraploids Tragopogon …

LTR retrotransposons are major components of plant genomes. They are regulated by a
diverse array of external stresses and tissue culture conditions, displaying finely tuned …

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 …

Transposable elements (TEs) represent a major and variable portion of plant genomes, and
recent progress in genetics and genomics has highlighted the importance of different TE …

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

Polyploidy is an important force shaping plant genomes. All flowering plants are
descendants of an ancestral polyploid species, and up to 70% of extant vascular plant …

Transposable elements (TE s) usually represent the most abundant and dynamic fraction of
genomes in almost all living organisms. The overall capacity of such 'junk DNA'to induce …

Allopolyploidy has played an important role in the evolution of the flowering plants. Genome
mergers are often accompanied by significant and rapid alterations of genome size and …

The repetitive content of the plant genome (repeatome) often represents its largest fraction
and is frequently correlated with its size. Transposable elements (TEs), the main component …