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An assessment of the hap initiator gene for haploid production in Hordeum vulgare

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2009

W. Powell  and
W. Wood
W. Powell
Affiliation:
Scottish Crop Research Institute (Pentlandfleld), Pentlandfleld, Roslin, Midlothian, EH25 9RF
W. Wood
Affiliation:
Scottish Crop Research Institute (Pentlandfleld), Pentlandfleld, Roslin, Midlothian, EH25 9RF
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The production of haploids in large numbers is of great value to plant breeders and geneticists and this has led to the development of new techniques for haploid production (Nitzsche & Wenzel, 1977). In cultivated barley, Hordeum vulgare, there are four principal methods of isolating haploids: the culture of microspores, the isolation of embryos following the interspecific hybridization of Hordeum vulgare with H. bulbosum, ovule culture and the use of the haploid initiator gene (Kasha & Reinbergs, 1982). The present paper focuses attention on the use of the haploid initiator gene (hap) and compares this method with the H. bulbosum and microspore culture methods of haploid production.

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The Journal of Agricultural Science , Volume 103 , Issue 1 , August 1984 , pp. 253 - 255
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1984

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