In a new study published in Molecular Plant, researchers led by Fu Xiangdong and Lu Fei from the Institute of Genetics and ...

Jan. 23, 2025 — Scientists have developed a theoretical model that uncovers the dual role of polyploidy -- organisms carrying extra genome copies -- in evolution. Their findings reveal that ...

PROF. RUGGLES GATES introduces hybridity with chromosome incompatibility as a possible source of polyploid series in plant genera. In my note I deliberately refrained from referring to this ...

but does not necessarily alter any of the current views regarding the origin of polyploidy. The fundamental fact that the chromosomes in many plant genera occur in arithmetical series, shows that ...

Polyploidy has contributed to the divergence and domestication of plants; however, estimation of the relative roles that different types of polyploidy have played during evolution has been difficult.