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Abnormal vascular patterns were formed in pea roots recovering from a 3-h treatment with 0.025% of colchicine solution. New, often asymmetrical, patterns arose by the formation of additional protoxylem poles; later the patterns converted to a normal symmetrical tetrarch or triarch condition.
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Acknowledgment. I. thank Professor L. W. Roberts, University of Idaho, for the help he gave me during the preparation of this paper.
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Barlow, P.W. New patterns of vascular development in roots of Pisum recovering from colchicine treatment. Experientia 33, 1153–1154 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01922297
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