ABSTRACT
A significant effect of the plant development stage on fertility was observed at the time of colchicine treatment. Plants at the 5-7 tillers stage showed improved plant fertility and reduced plant mortality than those treated at the 2-3 tillers stage. The addition of colchicine to media resulted not only in higher plant fertility than did conventional methods, but furthermore led to a huge increase in the number of doubled-haploid seeds.
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Javed Ahmad and Muhammad Aslam Chowdhry, 2005. The Efficiency of Chromosome Doubling in Haploids Derived from Wheat X Maize Crossing. Pakistan Journal of Biological Sciences, 8: 1707-1711.
DOI: 10.3923/pjbs.2005.1707.1711
URL: https://scialert.net/abstract/?doi=pjbs.2005.1707.1711
DOI: 10.3923/pjbs.2005.1707.1711
URL: https://scialert.net/abstract/?doi=pjbs.2005.1707.1711
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