[1] Cui, L.Y., Wall, P.K., Leebens-Mark, J.H., Lindsay, B.G., Soltis, D.E., Doyle, J.J., Soltis, P.S., Carlson, J.E., Arumuganathan, K., Barakat, A., Albert, V.A., Ma, H. and dePamphilis, C.W. (2007) Widespread Genome Duplications throughout the History of Flowering Plants. Genome Research, 16, 738-749.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/gr.4825606
[2] Masterson, J. (1994) Stomatal Size in Fossil Plants: Evidence for Polyploidy in Majority of Angiosperms. Science, 264, 421-423.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.264.5157.421
[3] Wendel, J.F. and Cronn, R.C. (2003) Polyploiy and the Evolutionary History of Cotton. Advances in Agronomy, 78, 139-186.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0065-2113(02)78004-8
[4] Parisod, C., Holderegger, R. and Brochmann, C. (2010) Evolutionary Consequences of Autopolyploidy. New Phytologist, 186, 5-17.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8137.2009.03142.x
[5] Wolfe, K.H. (2001) Yesterday’s Polyploids and the Mystery of Diploidization. Nature Reviews, 2, 333-341.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/35072009
[6] Dai, H.J., Zhu, Z.B., Shen, X.L., Zhou, J.M. and He, J.H. (2010) Es-sences and Approaches of Distant Hybridization in Crops Breeding. Genomics and Applied Biology, 29, 144-149.
[7] Gao, Y.H., Zhu, S.J. and Ji, D.F. (2005) Studies on the Cytological Characters of the Interspecific Hybrid F1 among the Cultivated Species in Gossypium and their Genetic Relationship. Acta Genetica Sinica, 32, 744-752.
[8] Hutchinson, J.B., Silow, R.A. and Stephens, S.G. (1947) The Evolution of Gossypium and the Differentiation of the Cultivated Cotton. Oxford University Press, New York.
[9] Hutchinson, J.B. (1954) New Evidence on the Origin of the Old World Cottons. Heredity, 8, 225-241.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/hdy.1954.20
[10] Fryxel, P.A. (1979) The Natural History of the Cotton Tribe. Texas A&M Univ Press, College Station.
[11] Ishizaka, H. and Uematau, J. (1994) Amphidiploids between Cyclamen persicum Mill. and C. hederifolium Aiton Induced through Colchicine Taeatment of Ovules in Vitro and Plants. Breeding Science, 44, 161-166.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1270/jsbbs1951.44.161
[12] Petersen, K.K., Hagberg, P. and Kristiansen, K. (2003) Colchicine and Oryzalin Mediated Chromosome Doubling in Different Genotypes of Miscanthus sinensis. Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture, 73, 137-146.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1022854303371
[13] Luckett, D.J. (1989) Colchicine Mutagenesis Is Associated with Substantial Heritable Variation in Cotton. Euphytica, 42, 177-182.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00042630
[14] Alishah, O. and Bagherieh-Najjar, M.B. (2008) Polyploidization Effect in Two Diploid Cotton (Gossypium herbaceum L. and G. arboreum L.) Species by Colchicine Treatments. African Journal of Biotechnology, 7, 102-108.
[15] Wu, Y.X., Yang, F.H., Zhao, X.M. and Yang, W.D. (2011) Identification of Tetraploid Mutants of Platycodon grandiflorus by Colchicine Induction. Caryologia, 64, 343-349.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00087114.2011.10589801
[16] Li, M.X. and Chen, R.Y. (1985) A Suggestion on the Standardization of Karyotype Analysis in Plants. Journal of Wuhan Botanical Research, 3, 297-302.
[17] Levan, A., Fredga, K. and Sandberg, A.A. (1964) Nomenclature for Centromeric Position on Chromosomes. Hereditas, 52, 201-220.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1601-5223.1964.tb01953.x
[18] Stebbins, G.L. (1971) Chromosomal Evolution in Higher Plants. Edward Amold, London, 43-46.
[19] Kuo, S.R., Wang, T.T. and Huang, T.C. (1972) Karyotype Analysis of Some Formosan Gymnosperm. Taiwania, 17, 66.
[20] Beasley, J.O. (1942) Meiotic Chromosome Behavior in Species, Species Hybrids, Haploids, and Induced Polyploids of Gossypium. Genetics, 27, 25-54.
[21] Fawcett, J.A., Maere, S. and Van de Peer, Y. (2009) Plants with Double Genomes Might Had a Better Chance to Survive the Cretaceous-Tertiary. PNAS, 106, 5737-5742.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0900906106
[22] Desai, A., Chee, P.W., Rong, J.K., May, O.L. and Paterson, A.H. (2006) Chromosome Structural Changes in Diploid and Tetraploid A Genomes of Gossypium. Genome, 49, 336-345.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/G05-116
[23] Jiao, Y.N., Wickett, N.J., Ayyampalayam, S., Chanderbali, A.S., Landherr, L., Ralph, P.E., Tomsho, L.P., Hu, Y., Liang, H.Y., Soltis, P.S., Soltis, D.E., Clifton, S.W., Schlarbaum, S.E., Schuster, S.C., Ma, H., Leebens-Mack, J. and de Pamphilis, C.W. (2011) Ancestral Polyploidy in Seed Plants and Angiosperms. Nature, 473, 97-102.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature09916