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A method for reducing cytochimerism and inducing homogeneous tetraploids in Haplopappus gracilis (2n = 4) was developed in which masses of shoot primordia treated with 0.5 mg/ml of colcemid for 3 days were cut into small meristematic domes. All of the shoot primordia sampled just after the colcemid treatment were cytochimeras that were mixoploids of 2x, 4x and 8x cells. However, when they were allowed to recover in a colcemid-free medium, the frequency of 4x cells spontaneously increased in most of the shoot primordia. Thirty days after the recovery, chimeric masses containing shoot primordia, each of which consisted uniformly of 4x or 2x cells, were observed. In order to obtain a completely homogeneous tetraploid mass, we then cut these primordia into small pieces, each of which had approximately one meristematic dome. Subsequent to this homogeneous tetraploid masses were easily obtained. Tetraploid shoot primordia could propagate with chromosomal stability over a year, and plants regenerated from these tetraploid shoot primordia were also completely tetraploid. These results show that non-chrimeric masses can be easily isolated from artificially induced cytochimeras using masses of shoot primordia as material.
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Fujishige, I., Tanaka, R. & Taniguchi, K. Efficient isolation of non-chimeric tetraploids artificially induced in a stable culture of Haplopappus gracilis . Theoret. Appl. Genetics 92, 157–162 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00223370
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