Impact of polyploidy on plant tolerance to abiotic and biotic stresses

VE Tossi, LJ Martínez Tosar, LE Laino… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Polyploidy, defined as the coexistence of three or more complete sets of chromosomes in an
organism's cells, is considered as a pivotal moving force in the evolutionary history of …

Polyploidy impacts population growth and competition with diploids: multigenerational experiments reveal key life‐history trade‐offs

TJ Anneberg, EM O'Neill, TL Ashman… - New …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Ecological theory predicts that early generation polyploids ('neopolyploids') should quickly
go extinct owing to the disadvantages of rarity and competition with their diploid progenitors …

Genomic insights into the evolution of plant chemical defense

CP Drummond, T Renner - Current Opinion in Plant Biology, 2022 - Elsevier
Plant trait evolution can be impacted by common mechanisms of genome evolution,
including whole-genome and small-scale duplication, rearrangement, and selective …

Neopolyploidy increases stress tolerance and reduces fitness plasticity across multiple urban pollutants: support for the “general-purpose” genotype hypothesis

MM Turcotte, N Kaufmann, KL Wagner… - Evolution …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Whole-genome duplication is a common macromutation with extensive impacts on gene
expression, cellular function, and whole-organism phenotype. As a result, it has been …

The immediate effects of polyploidization of Spirodela polyrhiza change in a strain-specific way along environmental gradients

Q Bafort, T Wu, A Natran, O De Clerck… - Evolution …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The immediate effects of plant polyploidization are well characterized and it is generally
accepted that these morphological, physiological, developmental, and phenological …

Understanding polyploid establishment: temporary persistence or stable coexistence?

F Mortier, Q Bafort, S Milosavljevic, F Kauai… - Oikos, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Polyploidy, resulting from whole‐genome duplication (WGD), is ubiquitous in nature and
reportedly associated with extreme environments and biological invasions. However, WGD …

Genome size covaries more positively with propagule size than adult size: new insights into an old problem

DS Glazier - Biology, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The amount of hereditary information (DNA) contained in the cell nuclei of
larger or more complex organisms is often no greater than that of smaller or simpler …

Neopolyploidy causes increased nutrient requirements and a shift in plant growth strategy in Heuchera cylindrica

TJ Anneberg, KA Segraves - Ecology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Functional traits fall along a continuum from resource conservative to acquisitive and are
powerful predictors of the ecological settings necessary for a species to persist and …

Plant neopolyploidy and genetic background differentiate the microbiome of duckweed across a variety of natural freshwater sources

TJ Anneberg, MM Turcotte, TL Ashman - Molecular Ecology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Whole‐genome duplication has long been appreciated for its role in driving phenotypic
novelty in plants, often altering the way organisms interface with the abiotic environment …

Divergence in cold tolerance promotes niche differentiation between diploid and polyploid kiwifruits along an altitudinal gradient in Southwest China

SJ Yang, YJ Zhang, Y Zhang, JC Peng, CY Liu, DW Li… - Oikos, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Polyploidization is hypothesized to improve the freezing resistance of plants in cold regions.
However, adaptive strategies and key physiological mechanisms involved in the freezing …