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Polyploid success isn’t just about growing fast—it’s about outcompeting progenitors! 🌱
We had neopolyploid duckweed and their progenitor invade each other, testing how stress & frequency-dependent growth shape WGD success... or failure. @yvdp.bsky.social #polyploid #duckweed
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Polyploid - diploid coexistence in the greater duckweed Spirodela polyrhiza
Polyploidy, resulting from whole-genome duplication (WGD), is widespread among plants and originates in sympatry with their lower-ploidy progenitors. New polyploids can only succeed when they overcome...
doi.org
January 16, 2025 at 12:51 PM