Question

Name the chemical used for induction of polyploidy in plants?

Answer 1

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chemical mitotic inhibitoryagents such as colchicine or dinitroanilines are used to induce polyploidy in crop plants.

Answer 2

Colchicine

Explanation:

• Polyploidy can be define as a state of a cell or an organism having more than two pairs of homologous chromosomes.
• Colchicine is a chemical toxic. It can be used to induce polypoidy in plants.
• The colchicine prevents the formation of microtubule during the process of cell division, as a result of which the chromosomes during cell division are not pull apart like normally occurs. Thus the plant receives more than one homologous pair of chromosomes.

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