Polyploidy has been hypothesized to be both an evolutionary dead-end and a source for
evolutionary innovation and species diversification. Although polyploid organisms …

To understand and engineer plant metabolism, we need a comprehensive and accurate
annotation of all metabolic information across plant species. As a step towards this goal, we …

The importance of whole-genome duplication (WGD) for evolution is controversial. Whereas
some view WGD mainly as detrimental and an evolutionary dead end, there is growing …

Background Whole genome duplication (WGD) events have played a major role in
eukaryotic genome evolution, but the consequence of these extreme events in adaptive …

Two recent studies have addressed the long-term consequences of whole genome
duplications (WGD). Specifically, they analyzed transcriptomes of the plant Arabidopsis …