Apomixis, the asexual reproduction via seed, has many potential applications for plant
breeding by maintaining desirable genotypes over generations. Since most major crops do …

Plant speciation and diversification strongly rely on structural changes in the nuclear
genome, both at the whole ploidy and individual chromosome level. Phylogenetic …

Seed is one of the key factors of crop productivity. Therefore, a comprehension of the
mechanisms underlying seed formation in cultivated plants is crucial for the quantitative and …

In higher plants, sexual and asexual reproduction through seeds (apomixis) have evolved
as alternative strategies. As apomixis leads to the formation of clonal offspring, its great …

Fertilization involving unreduced (2n) gametes is considered the dominant mechanism of
polyploid formation in angiosperms; however, our knowledge of the prevalence of and …

Chromosomal inversions can provide windows onto the cytogenetic, molecular, evolutionary
and demographic histories of a species. Here we investigate a paracentric 1.17‐Mb …

Apomictic plants expand their geographical distributions more to higher elevations
compared to their sexual progenitors. It was so far unclear whether this tendency is related …

New species are generated by many means, among which hybridization plays an important
role. Interspecific hybrids can form isolated evolutionary units, especially when mechanisms …

Polyploidy is one of the most important evolutionary processes in plants. In natural
populations, polyploids usually emerge from unreduced gametes which either fuse with …

Asexual populations experience weaker responses to natural selection, which causes
deleterious mutations to accumulate over time. Additionally, stochastic loss of individuals …