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Autotetraploids of Vicia cracca show a higher allelic richness in natural populations and a higher seed set after artificial selfing than diploids.
Annals of botany - 1 Jan 2014
Eliášová Anežka, Trávníček Pavel, Mandák Bohumil, Münzbergová Zuzana
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BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Despite the great importance of autopolyploidy in the evolution of angiosperms, relatively little attention has been devoted to autopolyploids in natural polyploid systems. Several hypotheses have been proposed to explain why autopolyploids are so common and successful, for example increased genetic diversity and heterozygosity and the transition towards selfing. However, case studies on...
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