Beyond Mendel's Laws

Dear Colleagues,

The experiments of Gregor Mendel determined the formation and grandiose success of genetics in the 20th century. As this science developed with the use of new methods, evidence appeared that not all facts could be described on the frame of the patterns discovered by this scientist, and ideas about the so-called “non-Mendelian heredity” appeared. Science is an uninterrupted development of knowledge. Paying tribute to the inquisitive mind of Mendel, we present a Special Issue of the journal Plants devoted to the study of such phenomena. Since the main idea of the Issue is to present and discuss various aspects of non-Mendelian, non-canonical heredity and variability, articles including, but not limited to, the following topics will be welcome:

• Mobile elements of plants as a factor of variability and evolution;
• Cytoplasmic inheritance in plants;
• Epigenetic variations and their role in plant adaptation and evolution;
• Gene silencing;
• Genome methylation;
• Polyploidy and genome transformations in plants;
• Supernumerary chromosomes;
• Aspects of chromosomal and genomic evolution of plants;
• Ontogenetic and genetic changes during vegetative hybridization;
• Genetics of sex and its regulation;
• Non-canonical measurements in cell culture and somatic hybridization;
• Polygenic inheritance and environmental effects.

Prof. Dr. Alex Troitsky
Dr. Giorgio Perrella
Dr. Francisco Fuentes
Dr. Sujan Mamidi
Prof. Dr. Jan Dvorak
Guest Editors

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