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Nuclear Variability in Shoot Primordial Cells of Sorghum 1
Author(s) -
Nielsen E. L.,
Drolsom P. N.
Publication year - 1964
Publication title -
crop science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.76
H-Index - 147
eISSN - 1435-0653
pISSN - 0011-183X
DOI - 10.2135/cropsci1964.0011183x000400030029x
Subject(s) - geneticist , citation , biology , library science , agricultural experiment station , agriculture , computer science , genetics , ecology
THE use of colchicine to induce polyploidy in plants is well established. Results from studies wherein this narcotic was used to treat what appear to be homozygous (19) sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench) plants are difficult to reconcile with known genetic behaviors since truebreeding types were obtained from colchicine treatment without the usual doubling of the chromosome number. The frequency of mutant types in colchicine-treated progenies was greater also than that obtained usually through use of other mutagenic agents. It is the purpose of this