Curt L. Brubaker

TL;DR: It is shown that an abrupt five- to sixfold ploidy increase approximately 60 million years (Myr) ago, and allopolyploidy reuniting divergent Gossypium genomes approximately 1–2 Myr ago, conferred about 30–36-fold duplication of ancestral angiosperm genes in elite cottons, genetic complexity equalled only by Brassica among sequenced angiosperms.

TL;DR: Despite rapidly decreasing costs and innovative technologies, sequencing of angiosperm genomes is not yet undertaken lightly and the difficulties of sequencing and assembling complex genomes de novo are not yet addressed.

TL;DR: Signs of genomic additivity and epigenetic stasis during allopolyploid formation provide a contrast to recent evidence from several model plant allopoly ploids, most notably wheat and Brassica, where rapid and unex- plained genomic changes have been reported.

TL;DR: Conservation of colinear linkage groups among the four genomes indicates that allopolyploidy in Gossypium was not accompanied by extensive chromosomal rearrangement, suggesting that the processes that gave rise to inversio...

TL;DR: Most of the information on molecular variation in terpene biosynthesis is based on the analysis of artificially derived mutants but Australian Myrtaceae can provide examples of the same mechanisms in an ecological context.