While these examples might seem remarkable, given the high frequency of polyploidy speciation documented here, the bigger surprise would be if plant lineages were found in which polyploidy was ...

image: Polyploidy is important in the origin of new plant species and has caused some species to have an astoundingly large number of chromosomes.

Polyploid plants have multiple chromosome sets (derived from the same species or related species) ... The polyploidization of wheat, for example, was due to human cultivation after domestication 8.

Plants often have more than two copies of each chromosome — a condition known as polyploidy — and seedless fruits grow when crosses yield offspring with incompatible chromosomes.

Polyploidy, or whole genome duplication, is one example Shan and colleagues highlight of a research area that CRISPR could revolutionize. ... especially the role of polyploidy in plant evolution.

Polyploidy also appears in some tissues of otherwise diploid animals, including people -- for example, in specialized organ tissue such as muscle, placenta, and liver.

Leading expert on plant evolution and speciation and professor of Iowa State University, Jonathan Wendel, presented his research Thursday on cotton genomes and polyploidy in his presentation “Genes, ...

The evolution of plant lineages has many potential outcomes, ranging from extinction to diversification and speciation. This course explores the processes that influence how lineages evolve and how we ...

The 4,500-year-old plant lives off the ... “It’s the largest known example of a clone in any environment on Earth,” co-author Elizabeth Sinclair from ... a condition known as polyploidy.