Polyploidy, the possession of more than 2 complete genomes, is a major force in plant
evolution known to affect the genetic and genomic constitution and the phenotype of an …

Highlights•Most studies of polyploidization and diversification use indirect methods as
evidence for polyploidy, and often cannot capture a reticulate history.•Approaches that use …

Advanced resources for genome‐assisted research in barley (H ordeum vulgare) including
a whole‐genome shotgun assembly and an integrated physical map have recently become …

Crocus consists of about 100 species distributed from western Europe and northern Africa to
western China, with the center of diversity on the Balkan Peninsula and in Asia Minor. Our …

Background Triticeae, the tribe of wheat grasses, harbours the cereals barley, rye and wheat
and their wild relatives. Although economically important, relationships within the tribe are …

The objectives of the current study were to investigate the origin of polyploidy in the woody
bamboos and examine putative hybrid relationships in one major lineage (the temperate …

Polyploidization is an important speciation mechanism in the barley genus Hordeum. To
analyze evolutionary changes after allopolyploidization, knowledge of parental relationships …

Phylogenetic hypotheses for the large cosmopolitan genus Hypericum (St. John's wort) have
previously been based on morphology, and molecular studies have thus far included only a …

The páramos, high-elevation Andean grasslands ranging from ca. 2800 m to the snow line,
harbor one of the fastest evolving biomes worldwide since their appearance in the northern …

Studies of Hordeum vulgare subsp. spontaneum, the wild progenitor of cultivated barley,
have mostly relied on materials collected decades ago and maintained since then ex situ in …