The importance of haploids is well known to geneticists and plant breeders. The discovery of
anther-derived haploid Datura plants in 1964 initiated great excitement in the plant breeding …

Since the beginning of agricultural production, there has been a continuous effort to grow
more and better quality food to feed ever increasing popula tions. Both improved cultural …

A haploid is an organism that looks like a sporophyte, but has the chromosome complement
of a reduced gamete. There are several ways in which haploids can occur or be induced in …

Haploids are autonomous, sporophytic plants that have gametophytic chromosome number
because they originate from a gametic cell in the embryo sac or in the pollen grain. The …

Doubled haploid technology is an important tool for plant breeding. It allows for significant
time reduction in the achievement of homozygous breeding lines of value in crop …

The importance of haploidy or single totipotent cell to form a haploid plant is well known to
plant scientists in the field of agriculture and related disciplines. The work on haploidy …

In earlier works, the author reviewed and emphasized the importance of the in vitro induction
of haploids (Reinert and Bajaj 1977; Bajaj 1983 a). During the last decade tremendous …

Haploids have attracted great interest of geneticists, plant embryologists, physiologists and
breeders since the first discovery of haploid plants in Datura stramonium (Blakeslee et al …

Although several methods have been developed for producing haploid plants, the in vitro
techniques are much more efficient than inter-specific hybridization or treatment with plant …

In this review, the following uses of haploids in breeding are surveyed:(1) in mutagenesis
studies using either haploid plants or haploid cell cultures from which entire plants may be …