The estimation of nuclear DNA content has been by far the most popular application of flow
cytometry in plants. Because flow cytometry measures relative fluorescence intensities of …

Endoreduplication is the major source of somatic endopolyploidy in higher plants, and leads
to variation in cell ploidy levels due to iterative rounds of DNA synthesis in the absence of …

Ploidy and size phenomena are observed to be correlated across several biological scales,
from subcellular to organismal. Two kinds of ploidy change can affect plants. Whole-genome …

Endoreduplication, the replication of the genome without mitosis, leads to an increase in the
cellular ploidy of an organism over its lifetime, a condition termed 'endopolyploidy' …

Abstract Background and Aims Genome size is known to affect various plant traits such as
stomatal size, seed mass, and flower or shoot phenology. However, these associations are …

The 23 species of mycoheterotrophic or exoparasitic land plants (from 15 genera and 6
families) studied so far all retain a minimal set of 17 of the normally 116 plastome genes …

Little is known about DNA and RNA metabolism during leaf development and aging in the
model organism Arabidopsis. Therefore we examined the nuclear and plastidial DNA …

The completion of germination of seeds of Arabidopsis thaliana is marked by the
appearance of the radicle through the surrounding endosperm and testa. Using confocal …

Somatic polyploidy caused by endoreplication is observed in arthropods, molluscs, and
vertebrates but is especially prominent in higher plants, where it has been postulated to be …

Highlights•Endoreplication occurs in many species and different cell types.•Endoreplication
often correlates with but does not appear to be a direct promoter of growth.•Endoreplication …