Colchicine

So I was wondering... Colchicine is used to create polyploid plants. It acts as a mitotic spindle poison which can cause nondisjunction of the entire genome. What I was wondering was that if you were to treat a seed with a colchicine ...

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... of haploid plants can be greatly increased using anther culture (q.v.). Homozygous diploid plants can then be generated by treatment with colchicine (q.v.).

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Colchicine: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colchicine I do not have a protocol to induce mutation, but maybe a search with the right name might prove helpful. The second problem is do you have access to a lab that is allowed ...

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Try more of the effects of colchicine and cell division. Topics on genetically modified organisms(GMO) is nice to include or discuss.

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Well, what kind of stuff would you like us to contribute? I'm sure you know a lot about colchicine and how colchicine effects cells and such. So if you could narrow down the search, maybe we could add something and be productive a little bit :P

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