Genome size is a biodiversity trait that shows staggering diversity across eukaryotes, varying
over 64,000-fold. Of all major taxonomic groups, land plants stand out due to their …

Genome sizes vary considerably across all eukaryotes and even among closely related
species. The genesis and evolutionary dynamics of that variation have generated …

The amount of DNA in the nucleus of a cell is commonly referred to as the genome size or C-
value and people have been estimating this character in plants and animals for over 50 …

Intraspecific variation in genome size makes it possible to study ongoing processes of
genome size evolution. Although there are over 200 papers on intraspecific variation in …

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 …

Genome size varies c. 2400-fold in angiosperms (flowering plants), although the range of
genome size is skewed towards small genomes, with a mean genome size of 1C= 5.7 Gb …

Publisher Summary This chapter provides an overview of the current state of knowledge
concerning genome size evolution in plants. It includes a review of available data, the …

Genome size varies greatly across the flowering plants and has played an important role in
shaping their evolution. It has been reported that many factors correlate with the variation in …

Angiosperms represent one of the key examples of evolutionary success, and their diversity
dwarfs other land plants; this success has been linked, in part, to genome size and …

We have witnessed an explosion in our understanding of the evolution and structure of plant
genomes in recent years. Here, we highlight three important emergent realizations:(1) that …