Background Polyploidy is ubiquitous in eukaryotic plant and fungal lineages, and it leads to
the co-existence of several copies of similar or related genomes in one nucleus. In plants …

Abstract Background Bread wheat (Triticum aestivum) is an allohexaploid that is generated
by two subsequent allopolyploidization events. The large genome size (16 Gb) and …

Polyploidy or whole-genome duplication (WGD) is widespread in plants and is a key driver
of evolution and speciation, accompanied by rapid and dynamic changes in genomic …

Background Polyploidization and introgression are major events driving plant genome
evolution and influencing crop breeding. However, the mechanisms underlying the higher …

Abstract Information and function of a genome are not only decorated with epigenetic marks
in the linear DNA sequence but also in their non-random spatial organization in the nucleus …

The spatial arrangement of interphase chromosomes in the nucleus is important for gene
expression and genome function in animals and in plants. The recently developed Hi-C …

The three-dimensional packing of the genome plays an important role in regulating gene
expression. We have used Hi-C, a genome-wide chromatin conformation capture (3C) …

Background The packaging of long chromatin fibers in the nucleus poses a major challenge,
as it must fulfill both physical and functional requirements. Until recently, insights into the …

The spatial organization of the genome plays an important role in the regulation of gene
expression. However, the core structural features of animal genomes, such as topologically …

The formation of polyploids significantly increases the complexity of transcriptional
regulation, which is expected to be reflected in sophisticated higher-order chromatin …