Nutrient reserves may allow for genome size increase: evidence from compariso…

† Background and Aims: The genome size of an organism is determined by its capacity to tolerate genome expansion, given the species’ life strategy and the limits of a particular environment, and the ability for retrotransposon suppression and/or removal. In some giant-genomed bulb geophytes, this tolerance is explained by their ability to pre-divide cells in the dormant stages or by the s…