Genomic Plasticity and the Diversity of Polyploid Plants

By A. Leitch, Ilia J. Leitch. Science, 2008

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Subfields: Molecular Biology, Plant Science

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In Molecular Biology

1. Pamela S. Soltis
2. D. Soltis
3. J. Doyle
4. A. Leitch
5. Ilia J. Leitch
6. J. Suda
7. S. Hopper
8. D. Hessen

In Plant Science

1. Pamela S. Soltis
2. D. Soltis
3. D. Richardson
4. Petr Pyšek
5. J. Doyle
6. Jeremy E. Coate
7. J. Suda
8. S. Hopper

Citations in the corpus

• The more the better? The role of polyploidy in facilitating plant invasions. (2012, background): “Polyploidization can alter plant morphology, phenology, physiology and/or ecology within only one or a few generations (Levin, 2002), generating individuals that can cope with fluctuating environments, exploit new niches or outcompete progenitor species (Leitch and Leitch, 2008).”
• The “Polyploid Hop”: Shifting Challenges and Opportunities Over the Evolutionary Lifespan of Genome Duplications (2018, background): “A similar reasoning holds with genome sizes (Wendel, 2015): thus it is apparent that past polyploidization events were followed by massive genome downsizing, both in chromosome numbers and in absolute size (Leitch and Bennett, 2004; Leitch and Leitch, 2008).”
• Polyploidy and angiosperm diversification. (2009, neutral): “Wendel, 2005 ; Rapp and Wendel, 2005 ; Paterson et al., 2006 ; Leitch and Leitch, 2008 ; Tang et al., 2008 ).”
• OCBIL theory: towards an integrated understanding of the evolution, ecology and conservation of biodiversity on old, climatically buffered, infertile landscapes (2009, background): “These genetic mechanisms include translocation heterozygosity, dysploidy, polyploidy (Leitch and Leitch 2008) and the evolution of B chromosome systems.”
• Impacts of Nitrogen and Phosphorus: From Genomes to Natural Ecosystems and Agriculture (2017, background): “This increased yield may be one reason why most crops are polyploids (Leitch and Leitch, 2008).”
• Trigenomic Bridges for Brassica Improvement (2011, background): “Allohexaploid crops, selected by ancient or modern farmers, are extremely important in agriculture—including two of the world’s most widely adapted and important food crops bread wheat (Triticum aestivum) and oats (Avena sativa) (Murphy, 2007; Leitch and Leitch, 2008).”
• The role of hybridization in plant speciation. (2009, background): “Flowering plants exhibit remarkable genome plasticity (90), yet the merger of two genomes in a common nucleus should be viewed as a major upheaval at the nuclear and cellular levels— that is, as a sudden, violent disruption.”
• Plant speciation through chromosome instability and ploidy change: Cellular mechanisms, molecular factors and evolutionary relevance (2014, background): “From an evolutionary standpoint, this extreme genomic variability results from a long lasting process of genome adaptation and change [9].”
• Evolution of Genome Size in Duckweeds (Lemnaceae) (2011, background): “After polyploidization, transposable element mobility, insertions, deletion, and epigenome restructuring contribute to the successful development of a new species and also genome size changes [26].”