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Dissertation, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, 2021
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Description:
Polyploidy, whole-genome duplication, enhances stress-tolerance to drastic environmental compared to their diploid progenitor by enabling more extensive adaptation as advantages of gene and genome duplication. Polyploidy acts as drivers of evolution and speciation in plants. Polyploidy in angiosperms is an influential factor to trigger apomixis, the reproduction of asexual seeds. Apomixis is usually facultative, which means that both sexual and apomictic seeds can be formed by the same plant. Environmental abiotic stress, e.g., light stress, can change the frequency of apomixis. Photoperiod...