[EN] Although polyploidy is considered a ubiquitous process in plants, the establishment of new polyploid species may be hindered by ecological competition with parental diploid taxa. In such cases, the adaptive processes ...

[ES] El reino vegetal (Plantae), uno de los más antiguos en la historia de la vida en la Tierra, alberga una diversidad extraordinaria. Dentro de este reino se encuentra la familia de las compuestas, Asteraceae o Compositae, ...

[EN] How polyploids become established is a long-debated question, especially for autopolyploids that seem to have no evolutionary advantage over their progenitors. The Centaurea aspera polyploid complex includes diploid ...

Polyploidy has long been recognized as an important force in the evolution of flowering plants and often results in novel phenotypes having advantages in adaptation and major interest for agriculture. Many crops, including ...