Abstract Background and Aims The amount of DNA in an unreplicated gametic chromosome
complement is known as the C-value and is a key biodiversity character of fundamental …

The estimation of nuclear DNA content has been by far the most popular application of flow
cytometry in plants. Because flow cytometry measures relative fluorescence intensities of …

Flow cytometry, a method of rapidly characterizing optical properties of cells and cell
components within individuals, populations, and communities, is advancing research in …

The content of DNA in the somatic, unreplicated cell nuclei (genome size) and DNA base
composition (GC content) are the basic genomic parameters that can be measured by flow …

Land plant species (Embryophyta) vary more than 2,300-fold in the size of the holoploid
genome (C-value)(see Leitch and Leitch 2012a, this volume) with the extremes at both ends …

Karyotypic change constitutes an important evolutionary mechanism contributing to in
angiosperm diversification and speciation. Comparative analyses of the karyotype usually …

Abstract Background and Aims Detailed knowledge of variations in ploidy levels and their
geographic distributions is one of the key tasks faced in polyploid research in natural …

The repetitive fraction (repeatome) of eukaryotic genomes is diverse and usually fast
evolving, being an important tool for clarify plant systematics. The genus Juncus L …

Biogeographers claimed for more than a century that arctic plants survived glaciations in ice‐
free refugia within the limits of the North European ice sheets. Molecular studies have …

Mountains of the Balkan Peninsula are significant biodiversity hotspots with great species
richness and a large proportion of narrow endemics. Processes that have driven the …