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. 2017:1536:23-30.
doi: 10.1007/978-1-4939-6682-0_2.

Oat Doubled Haploids Following Maize Pollination

Philip A Davies  1 , Parminder K Sidhu  2
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Oat Doubled Haploids Following Maize Pollination

Philip A Davies et al. Methods Mol Biol. 2017.

Abstract

Doubled haploids (DHs) are an important tool for the accelerated production of new crop varieties. In oat, DHs were first produced by pollinating oat florets with maize pollen. The resultant embryos spontaneously eliminate the maize chromosomes leaving a haploid complement of oat chromosomes. These embryos can be cultured in vitro using the "embryo rescue" technique to produce haploid plants whose chromosome number can be doubled with colchicine to produce homozygous DH oat plants.

Keywords: Avena sativa; Breeding; Doubled haploid; Haploid; Maize; Oat; Zea mays.

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