What drives polyploidization in plants?

New Phytol. 2019 Sep;223(4):1690-1692. doi: 10.1111/nph.15929. Epub 2019 Jun 12.

Authors

Tod Stuessy^{1

2}, Hanna Weiss-Schneeweiss¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research, University of Vienna, Rennweg 14, A-1030, Vienna, Austria.
² Herbarium and Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology, The Ohio State University, 1315 Kinnear Avenue, Columbus, OH, 43212, USA.

Abstract

This article is a Commentary on Wagner et al. 223: 2039–2053.

Keywords: allopolyploidy; chromosome doubling; evolution; genetic distance; hybridization; speciation.

Publication types

Comment

MeSH terms

Asteraceae*
Genomics
Humans
Hybridization, Genetic
Leucanthemum*
Polyploidy