Polyploidy in Plants
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Molecular Biology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2020) | Viewed by 3703
Special Issue Editors
Interests: polyploidy; genome evolution; miRNA; Avena; oats; bioinoformatics; genome structure; evolutionary genomics
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Polyploidy is a remarkable phenomenon common to the evolutionary history of all plants that can have profound effects on that lineage. The genomic turmoil concomitant with genome doubling and the redundancy inherent in polyploid species provide fodder for evolutionary novelty, often resulting in increased species diversification and/or phenotypic novelty. Decades of research have been devoted to understanding the consequences of polyploidy, from ecology to genetics and phenotype. From this body of research, we have increased our understanding of the prevalence of polyploidy, both ancient and recent; the myriad structural genomic and transcriptomic changes that accompany polyploidization; the recurrent and ongoing nature of polyploidy; the return to diploidization via fractionation; the parental biases exhibited in the polyploid; and the physiological and ecological consequences of polyploidy.
Although the research community has made significant strides in understanding the patterns, processes, and consequences of polyploidy, questions remain regarding the “rules” of polyploidy. Much of our understanding comes from relatively few model systems whose perspective on the generation and evolution of polyploid species may be limited to one or few of the many consequences of genome doubling. Modern polyploid research should, therefore, make a concerted effort toward both understanding all aspects and/or consequences of polyploidy for established model systems and also toward developing new models whose unique biology and evolutionary history may help elucidate the precepts governing this evolutionarily important phenomenon. For this Special Issue, we welcome articles that contribute to the global understanding of polyploidy, the patterns and processes that govern it, and the myriad outcomes of genome doubling.
Prof. Jessica Schlueter
Dr. Corrinne E Grover
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- polyploidy
- paleopolyploidy
- polyploid genomics
- polyploid evolution
- polyploid ecology
- polyploid transcriptomes
- polyploid epigenomics
- fractionation
- diploidization
