Background Biological invasions are a major ecological and socio-economic problem in
many parts of the world. Despite an explosion of research in recent decades, much remains …

Polyploidization of plants occurs in nature but it is a slow and gradual process that has
driven evolution and speciation throughout the ages. As time is important, polyploidization …

In recent decades, interest in plant genome size (ie the total amount of DNA in the
unreplicated haploid nucleus; Greilhuber et al., 2005) has been growing exponentially as …

Flow cytometry (FCM) using DNA-selective fluorochromes is now the prevailing method for
the measurement of nuclear DNA content in plants. Ease of sample preparation and high …

Over the years, the amount of DNA in a nucleus (genome size) has been estimated using a
variety of methods, but increasingly, flow cytometry (FCM) has become the method of choice …

Chromosome numbers have been widely used to describe the most fundamental genomic
attribute of an organism or a lineage. Although providing strong phylogenetic signal …

Flow cytometry (FCM) is currently the most widely‐used method to establish nuclear DNA
content in plants. Since simple, 1‐3‐parameter, flow cytometers, which are sufficient for most …

Since the first report on the flow cytometric study of plant material 35 years ago, analyzing
the nuclear DNA content of field bean, an ever increasing number of applications of FCM …

Whole genome duplication (WGD) events are common in many plant lineages, but the
ploidy status and possible occurrence of intraspecific ploidy variation are unknown for most …

Chrysanthemum L.(Asteraceae-Anthemideae) is a genus with rapid speciation. It comprises
about 40 species, most of which are distributed in East Asia. Many of these are narrowly …