This book is divided into two parts. Part 1 deals with the evolutionary processes, describing the chromosome structure, genetic variation, multifactorial genome, polyploidy, gene duplication and speciation. Part 2 deals with the origins of agriculture and the dynamics of plant d…
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- 1: Interspecific Hybridization for Upland Cotton Improvement -- Abstract -- The Cotton Crop -- Origin and Taxonomy of Gossypium hirsutum -- Domestication and "Upland" Cotton -- Cotton Improvem…
Polyploidy and hybridisation are critical processes in plant evolution and speciation. Many current agricultural crops are either natural or agricultural hybrids or polyploids, including potato, sugarcane, wheat, strawberries, and banana. There is a great deal of potential to …
Polyploidy and hybridisation are critical processes in plant evolution and speciation. Many current agricultural crops are either natural or agricultural hybrids or polyploids, including potato, sugarcane, wheat, strawberries, and banana. There is a great deal of potential to …
Many of our current agricultural crops are natural or agricultural hybrids (between two or more species), or polyploids (containing more than one genome or set of chromosomes). These include potato, oats, cotton, oilseed rape, wheat, strawberries, kiwifruit, banana, seedless wat…
by ProQuest (Firm), Soltis, Pamela S., Soltis, Douglas E.
Polyploidy - whole-genome duplication (WGD) - is a fundamental driver of biodiversity with significant consequences for genome structure, organization, and evolution. Once considered a speciation process common only in plants, polyploidy is now recognized to have played a major …
This book brings together the conceptual and theoretical underpinnings of polyploid genome evolution with syntheses of the patterns and processes of genome evolution in diverse polyploid groups.
Increasing human pressure combined with sea level rise and increased storminess is threatening coastal ecosystems around the world. Among these ecosystems, saltmarshes are particularly endangered due to their position in temperate areas with low wave action where human density i…
Biological conservation will benefit from an increased focus on the prevalence and impact of polyploidy (whole genome duplication) in natural Angiosperm (flowering plants) systems. The role of polyploidy in flowering plants has largely been overlooked within the broader context …