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Polyploidy in Angiosperms: Genetic Insight to the Phenomenon

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Polyploidy in angiosperm is a well discussed phenomenon for last few decades but still the proper mechanism and its consequences remain to be an enigma. The present review revisited the phenomenon of polyploidy in angiosperms considering many aspects like genome merging and duplication, restructuring of genome, gene silencing, genome size dynamics, meiotic pairing behaviour of homologues, adaptive significance, relationship between C-value and DNA content among others and a few key questions are raised. It is rather difficult to understand whether all of these regulatory events under the ecological niche are unilateral forces or act as tools of a unified selection machinery of evolution, speciation and diversification. The present discussion may provide genetic insight on the phenomenon in an explicit dimension for proper understanding of evolutionary biology.

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The research is grant aided by DST-PURSE Programme, University of Kalyani, West Bengal, India. The authors pay sincere thank to the anonymous Hon’ble Reviewer for providing significant suggestions for upgrading the article.

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  1. Department of Botany, Cytogenetics, Genetics and Plant Breeding Section, Kalyani University, Kalyani, 741235, West Bengal, India

    Animesh Kumar Datta, Aninda Mandal, Debadrito Das & Sandip Halder

  2. Department of Botany, Pteridology-Palaeobotany Section, Kalyani University, Kalyani, 741235, West Bengal, India

    Sudha Gupta & Subikash Biswas

  3. Department of Botany, Narasinha Dutt College, Howrah, 711101, West Bengal, India

    Aditi Saha

  4. Department of Botany, Charuchandra College, Kolkata, 700029, West Bengal, India

    Rita Paul

  5. Department of Botany, Acharya Prafulla Chandra Roy Government College, Himachal Bihar, Matigara, Silguri, 734010, West Bengal, India

    Sonali Sengupta

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Datta, A.K., Mandal, A., Das, D. et al. Polyploidy in Angiosperms: Genetic Insight to the Phenomenon. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., India, Sect. B Biol. Sci. 86, 513–522 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40011-015-0523-z

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