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Description: THE POLYPLOIDY PARADIGM AND ITS ROLE IN PLANT BREEDING
Polyploid project
Plants can undergo spontaneous chromosome number duplication, or polyploidisation, which acts as a major evolutionary trigger. In fact, all seed plants have experienced at least one round of whole genome duplication in their history. The phenotypes of the polyploid individuals often exceed the range found in the original parental plants (they are more vigorous, have larger organ sizes, higher tolerance to biotic and abiotic stress, or more versatile reproductive strategies). Therefore, polyploidisation can
Polyploidization is a major force in the evolution of both wild and cultivated plants and a valuable tool for plant breeders. The objectives of our project are: i) to study the genetic and epigenetic structure of natural and recently synthesized polyploid series of several species that have been extensively characterized in the past few decades from physiological, reproductive and ecological aspects; ii) to fill the gaps in the information on non-model species regarding: chromosomal changes, gene loss, gene
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