Polyploidy, or whole-genome duplication (WGD), is a major mechanism of genome evolution across the tree of life and is ...

New data on the evolution of plants and origin of species Date: October 23, 2019 Source: Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg Summary: There are over 500,000 plant species in the world today.

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