The important role of polyploidy in plant evolution is widely recognized. However, many
questions remain to be explored to address how polyploidy affects the phenotype of the …

Studies have shown that polyploidy has pronounced effects on plants in multiple aspects,
including genome structure, gene expression, metabolism and so on, which finally induce …

The importance of allopolyploidy in plant evolution has been widely recognized. The genetic
changes triggered by allopolyploidy, however, are not yet fully understood due to …

Allopolyploids undergo “genomic shock” leading to significant genetic and epigenetic
modifications. Previous studies have mainly focused on nuclear changes, while little is …

Allopolyploidization is considered an essential evolutionary process in plants that could
trigger genomic shock in allopolyploid genome through activation of transcription of …

Background Meiosis of newly formed allopolyploids frequently encounter perturbations
induced by the merging of divergent and hybridizable genomes. However, to date, the …

The molecular evolution of the cucumber Por gene in early generations of the synthesized
allotetraploid Cucumis× hytivus was investigated. The results from gene expression analysis …

Allopolyploids are often faced with the challenge of maintaining well-coordination between
nuclear and cytoplasmic genes inherited from different species. The synthetic allotetraploid …

We previously demonstrated that allopolyploidization could induce phenotypic variations
and genome changes in a newly synthesized allotetraploid in Cucumis. To explore the …

Polyploidy occurs throughout the evolutionary history of many plants and considerably
impacts species diversity, giving rise to novel phenotypes and leading to ecological …