Flow cytometry (FCM) has been used for plant DNA content estimation since the 1980s;
however, presently, the number of laboratories equipped with flow cytometers has …

Angiosperms, which inhabit diverse environments across all continents, exhibit significant
variation in genome sizes, making them an excellent model system for examining …

Climate change leads to increasing temperature and more extreme hot and drought events.
Ecosystem capability to cope with climate warming depends on vegetation's adjusting pace …

Background Biologists have long debated the drivers of the genome size evolution and
variation ever since Darwin. Assumptions for the adaptive or maladaptive consequences of …

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 …

In bulb crops, bulbing is a key progress in micropropagation and is the feature that most
distinguishes bulbous crops from other plants. Generally, bulbing involves a shoot-to-bulblet …

In this study, we analyse a species complex in Epidendrum, a mega-diverse Neotropical
orchid genus, that is formed by the 11 Brazilian species of the E. difforme group. Although …

Plant species with large genomes tend to be excluded from climatically more extreme
environments with a shorter growing season. Species that occupy such environments are …

Floral senescence is of fundamental interest in understanding plant developmental
regulation, it is of ecological and agricultural interest in relation to seed production, and is of …

Although the evolutionary drivers of genome size change are known, the general patterns
and mechanisms of plant genome size evolution are yet to be established. Here we aim to …