Life without the mustard family (Brassicaceae) would be a world without many crop species
and the model organism Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) that has revolutionized our …

Although many studies provide examples of evolutionary processes such as adaptive
evolution, balancing selection, deleterious variation and genetic drift, the relative importance …

Anthropogenic climate change has already altered the timing of major life-history transitions,
such as the initiation of reproduction. Both phenotypic plasticity and adaptive evolution can …

Divergent natural selection promotes local adaptation and can lead to reproductive isolation
of populations in contrasting environments; however, the genetic basis of local adaptation …

Apomixis, asexual reproduction through seeds, has the potential to revolutionize agriculture
if its genetic basis can be elucidated. However, the genetic control of natural apomixis has …

Karyotype evolution in species with identical chromosome number but belonging to distinct
phylogenetic clades is a long-standing question of plant biology, intractable by conventional …

Mesopolyploid whole-genome duplication (WGD) was revealed in the ancestry of Australian
Brassicaceae species with diploid-like chromosome numbers (n= 4 to 6). Multicolor …

Fixed chromosomal inversions can reduce gene flow and promote speciation in two ways:
by suppressing recombination and by carrying locally favoured alleles at multiple loci …

Identification of the causal genes that control complex trait variation remains challenging,
limiting our appreciation of the evolutionary processes that influence polymorphisms in …

We have compared the transcriptomic profiles of microdissected live ovules at four
developmental stages between a diploid sexual and diploid apomictic Boechera. We …