Chromosome elimination resulting in haploids is achieved by rapid loss of chromosomes
from one parent during the zygote stage and is an important procedure to produce doubled …

Wheat crop has a critical role in current food system and also in the future global food
security. Global wheat demand in 2010 reached 666 million metric tons (MMT). If the …

Intergeneric hybridization between wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) and a wild weedy species,
Imperata cylindrica (2n= 20) resulted in the recovery of a high frequency of wheat haploids …

Plant biotechnology, a major component of agricultural biotechnology, deals with various
aspects of plant tissue culture, genetic transformation, and molecular biology techniques …

New breeding objectives, evolving disease organisms, changing climate patterns and the
need for quick genetic ameliorations make accelerated breeding an important aspect of …

The term haploid sporophyte is generally used to designate sporophytes having the gametic
chromosome number, and although the first haploids in flowering plants were identified over …

Agriculture is facing steep challenges of food, nutritional and water security, climate
instability, nutrient depletion, high input costs and reduction in cultivable land. Plant …

There have been many changes impacting wheat improvement since the 1996 International
Maize and Wheat Improvement Center Wheat Yield Symposium. This review highlights a …

Three doubled haploid lines of durum wheat [Triticum turgidum ssp. durum (Desf.) Husn.]
were crossed with maize (Zea mays L.), and five hormone treatments were applied to test …

Two chromosome doubling strategies were evaluated for producing wheat doubled haploids
from wheat x maize crosses:(i) in vitro colchicine application to haploid embryos and (ii) …