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Mendel and his peas. Barbara McClintock: jumping genes (transposable elements) in Zea mays. Plants have more. Genomes (three in every plant)HybridizationWhy?PolyploidyWhy?. Variegated leaf of Monstera: a chimera. Extreme natural selection: divergence of Agrostis (bentgrass) populations .
 
                
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1. Plant genetics: selection, hybridization, polyploidy, and modification 
2.    Mendel           and his peas 
3. Barbara McClintock: jumping genes (transposable elements) in Zea mays 
4. Plants have more Genomes (three in every plant)
Hybridization
Why?
Polyploidy
Why? 
5. Variegated leaf of Monstera: a chimera 
6. Extreme natural selection: divergence of Agrostis (bentgrass) populations  
8. Natural hybrid: black oak X valley oak 
9. Polyploidy (here, autopolyploidy) 
10. Allopolyploidy Involves two species
They interbreed, but fail to produce fertile offspring (why?)
A polyploidization (mutagenic) event occurs in flowering shoot
Due to nondisjunction, unreduced gametes are produced
These gametes fuse (self-fertilization) and  produce polyploid offspring
Polyploid offspring matures, successfully makes gametes that are diploid
Self-fertilization again occurs, new polyploid plants produced 
11. Georgi Karpechenko 
12. The Raphanobrassica story 
13. Karpechenko induced polyploidy with colchicine (from autumn crocus) 
14. The result? 
15. Reticulate evolution involving polyploidy:Tragopogon (Goats beard), a weed in Montana 
16. Natural hybrids (involving polyploidy) of Clarkia 
17. Effects of ploidy level on cell size in yeast 
18. Non-triploid (diploid) bananas 
19. Genetic engineering: unlikely source 
20. Using A. tumefaciens  to make transgenic plants 
21. Even more fun: Use a gene gun 	    Viewer discretion advised 
22. List of plants that have been or are nearly sequenced as of November 2008 
23. Sustaining biodiversity in ancient tropical countrysideJai Ranganathan, R. J. Ranjit Danielsb, M. D. Subash Chandranc, Paul R. Ehrlich, and Gretchen C. Daily