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, ...

polyploidy is more common; and plants additionally contain chloroplastic DNA. We provide an in-depth pan-genome analysis of 30 Malus species, revealing potential mechanisms of ancient gene ...

What could be at play, according to Pellicer, is some combination of rampant polyploidy — or having more than two sets of chromosomes, which is common in plants, though not in animals — and ...

Lectures consist of critical discussion of topics including species concepts, local adaptation and diversification, morphological and molecular evolution, mating systems, and the roles of ...

Most current C. arabica plants are derived from these two lineages, though a handful of wild ecotypes sourced from Ethiopia are also grown. While the polyploid nature of its genome may have ...

Evolution, ecology and genetics of plants, mutation rate, polyploidy, natural selection, mating systems, self-fertilization, flower development, molecular evolution. am interested generally in the ...