New perspectives on the mechanisms of chromosome evolution in parasitic flowering plants |
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Authors: | BATIA PAZY UZI PLITMANN |
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Institution: | Department of Plant Sciences, The Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91904, Israel |
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Abstract: | In an attempt to find any association between chromosomal characters and parasitism, a cytological study of parasitic flowering plants in Israel has been carried out. While no such association was found, evidence for three levels of chromosome evolution could be discerned: intra-chromosomal modifications, polyploidy per se , and genome restructuring in polyploids. Our conclusions may serve as a paradigm of the multiple pathways of chromosomal evolution in plants in general. © 2002 The Linnean Society of London, Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society , 138 , 117–122. |
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Keywords: | dioecious plants diploidization holocentric (holokinetic) chromosomes polyploidy permanent translocation heterozygotes |
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