polyploidiaan
Polyploidiaan is a term used in biology to describe the state or process of polyploidy, the condition in which a cell or organism possesses more than two complete sets of chromosomes. While polyploidy is well established in plants and, to a lesser extent, some animals, polyploidiaan functions as a general descriptor for the mechanisms and consequences of genome doubling and hybrid polyploid formation.
Polyploidiaan can arise through autopolyploidy, where chromosome sets duplicate within a species, or allopolyploidy, where genomes
Genome redundancy provides buffering against deleterious mutations, while dosage effects can alter gene expression and regulation.
Occurrence and significance: Polyploidiaan is especially prevalent in crop plants such as bread wheat, cotton, and
Methods to study polyploidiaan include cytogenetics for chromosome counting, flow cytometry to estimate genome size, and
In practical breeding, induced polyploidization is used to create seedless varieties, combine traits from related species,