Polyploidy, hybridization and reticulate evolution: lessons from the Brassicaceae

Abstract

The present review summarizes studies from the past decades on polyploidization and hybridization events, recognizing them as important evolutionary forces in the Brassicaceae family

Keywords

• allopolyploidy
• autopolyploidy
• Cruciferae
• chromosomes
• hybrids
• phylogeny
• restriction site variation
• chloroplast dna variation
• nuclear ribosomal dna
• subunit polypeptide composition
• internal transcribed spacer
• molecular systematics