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Who discovered effect of colchicine in chromosome doubling?

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Answered by sᴡᴇᴇᴛsᴍɪʟᴇ
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Colchicine has been used for treatment of gout disease since 1810. ... As microtubules function in chromosome segregation, colchicine induces polyploidy by preventing the segregation of chromosomes during meiosis that results into half of the gametes (sex cells) containing double the chromosome number than usual.

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