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Origin of Polyploidy

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Polyploidy: Recent Trends and Future Perspectives

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In terms of time, polyploidy is believed to have accompanied the evolution of plants since the last 350 million years (Vision et al. 2000; Bowers et al. 2003). Since polyploids are known as successful invaders of newly opened habitats, it is hypothesized that the major decline and extinction of gymnosperms during the late Cretaceous period (some 65 million years ago) left room for the newly formed polyploids of woody angiosperms (Stebbins 1950). As of now, it has been reported in almost all groups of plants, being one of the best known of their evolutionary processes.

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Dar, TUH., Rehman, RU. (2017). Origin of Polyploidy. In: Polyploidy: Recent Trends and Future Perspectives. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-3772-3_2

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