Background: Asexual reproduction has the potential to enhance deleterious mutation accumulation and to constrain adaptive evolution. One source of mutations that can be especially relevant in recent a
The worldwide distributed parasitic plants dodders (Cuscuta spp., Convolvulaceae) are root- and leafless and parasitize a wide range of hosts. A high-quality genome of Cuscuta australis was generated,
Certain types of gene families, such as those encoding most families of transcription factors, maintain their chromosomal syntenic positions throughout Angiosperm evolutionary time. Other, non-synteni
Domestication in the cotton genus is remarkable in that it has occurred independently four different times at two different ploidy levels. Relatively little is known about genome evolution and domesti
