Autopolyploidy is more common in plants than traditionally assumed, but has received little
attention compared with allopolyploidy. Hence, the advantages and disadvantages of …

Trait correlations are common phenomena in biology. Plant breeders need to consider trait
correlations to either improve correlated traits simultaneously or to reduce undesirable side …

Chlorella variabilis NC64A, a unicellular photosynthetic green alga (Trebouxiophyceae), is
an intracellular photobiont of Paramecium bursaria and a model system for studying …

During the past decade there has been a tremendous resurgence of interest in polyploidy
that has in large part been stimulated by the development of increasingly powerful genetic …

Polyploidy is an important aspect of the evolution of flowering plants. The potential of gene
copies to diverge and evolve new functions is influenced by meiotic behavior of …

Polyploid formation and processes that create partial genomic duplication generate
redundant genomic information, whose fate is of particular interest to evolutionary biologists …

A synthesis of insights from functional and evolutionary studies reveals how the
phytochrome photoreceptor system has evolved to impart both stability and flexibility …

Gene duplication is a major mechanism facilitating adaptation to changing environments.
From recent genomic analyses, the acquisition of zinc hypertolerance and …

Angiosperms are the most diversified plant group in the world, being represented by ca
300,000 species in about 400 families. Like all of Life, including ourselves, they have had …

In a world of more than 6 billion people, humans heavily rely on the dependable cultivation
of the global food grain crops: rice, wheat, soybeans, maize (and cotton for fiber). History …