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

Despite the importance of polyploidy and the increasing availability of new genomic data,
there remain important gaps in our knowledge of polyploid population genetics. These gaps …

Many species comprise multiple cytotypes that represent autopolyploids, or presumed
autopolyploids, of the basic diploid cytotype. However, rarely has an autopolyploid been …

Recently, the amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) technique has gained a lot of
popularity, and is now frequently applied to a wide variety of organisms. Technical …

Asexual organisms usually have larger and more northern distributions than their sexual
relatives. This phenomenon, called geographical parthenogenesis, has been controversially …

Speciation via hybridization and polyploidization is a major evolutionary force in plant
evolution but is still poorly understood for neopolyploid groups. Challenges are attributed to …

Apomictic plants reproduce asexually through seeds by avoiding both meiosis and
fertilization. Although apomixis is genetically regulated, its core genetic component (s) has …

Simple Summary Plant species complexes with hybridization and asexual reproduction
often exhibit complex morphological patterns, which is problematic for classifications. Here …

Hybridization and polyploidy are now hypothesized to have regularly stimulated speciation
in angiosperms, but individual or combined involvement of these two processes seems to …

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