The Arctic’s polyploid haven in Arabidopsis kamchatica

Back at the Boise Botany meeting 11 years ago, I first met Alison Scott, then a PhD student at UW Madison presenting her poster on polyploidy in Sequioa. Fast forward to today- she is at ALA, furiously sampling hundreds of Arabidopsis kamchatica specimens to explore ploidy level changes in Beringian populations. It was great reconnecting with Alison, diving into her latest research on polyploidy in Arabidopsis, and swap ideas on endopolyploidy, an area I have recently started to explore myself. Read her recent paper on ‘Multiple autopolyploid Arabidopsis lyrata populations stabilized by long-range adaptive introgression across Eurasia’ in Molecular Biology and Evolution here.