A study of Paspalum species native to South America shows that while clones can expand a plant's range, the method a parent uses to clone itself will impact how the population develops.
Though the experiment was limited to two genotypes of a single species, these findings support the idea that whole genome duplication can indeed increase plasticity.
Over 600 species of yams belong to the genus Dioscorea but about 10 species are cultivated. Yams are a very important tropical crop, mainly grown in Africa, Asia, the Pacific and South America. On 8.7 million hectares...
A common event for flowering plants is whole genome duplication (WGD), where a plant gets extra chromosomes. It’s often studied in mature plants, but there can also be extra copies of the genome in the pollen, and...