Polyploidy, or genome doubling, has occurred repeatedly through plant evolution. While
polyploid plants are used extensively in agriculture and horticulture, they have so far found …

Silver birch (Betula pendula) is a pioneer boreal tree that can be induced to flower within 1
year. Its rapid life cycle, small (440-Mb) genome, and advanced germplasm resources make …

Over the years, the amount of DNA in a nucleus (genome size) has been estimated using a
variety of methods, but increasingly, flow cytometry (FCM) has become the method of choice …

Key message This review for the first time gathers the current state of knowledge on the role
of plant and microbial methyl salicylate (MeSA) signaling processes in forest ecosystems. It …

Plastid phylogenomic analyses have shed light on many recalcitrant relationships across the
angiosperm Tree of Life and continue to play an important role in plant phylogenetics …

Climate change impacts on the structure and function of ecosystems will worsen public
health issues like allergic diseases. Birch trees (Betula spp.) are important sources of …

Hybridization may lead to introgression of genes among species. Introgression may be
bidirectional or unidirectional, depending on factors such as the demography of the …

Numerous plant genera have a history including frequent hybridisation and polyploidisation
(allopolyploidisation), which means that their phylogeny is a network of reticulate evolution …

Background Biologists have long debated the drivers of the genome size evolution and
variation ever since Darwin. Assumptions for the adaptive or maladaptive consequences of …

Introgression allows polyploid species to acquire new genomic content from diploid
progenitors or from other unrelated diploid or polyploid lineages, contributing to genetic …