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Haploidy in alfalfa

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In Vitro Haploid Production in Higher Plants

Part of the book series: Current Plant Science and Biotechnology in Agriculture ((PSBA,volume 25))

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Plants having a single genome are known as haploids. Alternatively, haploid plants also are defined as those that have the gametic number of chromosomes. However, in the case of a polyploid species like alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.), a tetraploid with 2n = 4x = 32, haploid plants actually are true diploids with two homologous sets of chromosomes (2n = 2x = 16). As far as we know, true haploid (or “monoploid”; 2n = lx = 8) forms of alfalfa have not yet been reported. We will refer to “haploid” alfalfa plants derived directly from a tetraploid plant through halving the number of genomes, resulting in 2n = 2x = 16, as dihaploids. The term “diploid” will be used to refer to naturally occurring M. sativa with 16 chromosomes.

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  1. Daniel Z. Skinner
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  1. Plant Production Department, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

    S. Mohan Jain

  2. School of Life Science, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

    S. K. Sopory

  3. Department of Horticulture, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, College of Agriculture and Life Science, Blacksburg, 24061-0383, Virginia, USA

    R. E. Veilleux

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Skinner, D.Z., Liang, G.H. (1996). Haploidy in alfalfa. In: Jain, S.M., Sopory, S.K., Veilleux, R.E. (eds) In Vitro Haploid Production in Higher Plants. Current Plant Science and Biotechnology in Agriculture, vol 25. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1858-5_19

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