Horticultural plants play various and critical roles for humans by providing fruits, vegetables,
materials for beverages, and herbal medicines and by acting as ornamentals. They have …

Gene expression data for Archaeplastida are accumulating exponentially, with more than
300 000 RNA-sequencing (RNA-seq) experiments available for hundreds of species. The …

Most diploid organisms have polyploid ancestors. The evolutionary process of
polyploidization is poorly understood but has frequently been conjectured to involve some …

Vegetable crops provide a rich source of essential nutrients for humanity and represent
critical economic values to global rural societies. However, genetic studies of vegetable …

Weeds, plants that thrive in the face of disturbance, have eluded human's attempts at control
for> 12 000 years, positioning them as a unique group of extreme stress tolerators. The most …

Gene loss following whole genome duplication (WGD) is often biased, with one subgenome
retaining more ancestral genes and the other sustaining more gene deletions. While bias …

Angiosperms produce seeds as their progeny enclosed in maternally-derived structures
called fruits. Evolutionarily, fruits have contributed enormously to the success of the …

Five herbaceous plant species (Aquilegia vulgaris L., Capsella bursa-pastoris L., Dactylis
glomerata L., Taraxacum officinale Wigg., and Trifolium repens L.) were sampled at twelve …

Meeting the needs of a growing world population in the face of imminent climate change is a
challenge; breeding of vegetable and oilseed Brassica crops is part of the race in meeting …

Polyploidy confers a selective advantage under stress conditions; however, whether
polyploidization mediates enhanced herbicide adaptation remains largely unknown …