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RECIPROCAL translocations are found frequently in many wild and cultivated plants, and are inducible artificially by treatment with X-rays1. In the cases of wheat (2n = 14), the largest ring ⊙ 14 was obtained by successive inter-crossing of the translocation stocks, which were produced by X-rays7,8. This is a confirmation of one of the processes through which the largest rings arise in some wild plants.
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WATANABE, H. An X-ray-induced Strain of Ring-of-12 in Tradescantia paludosa. Nature 193, 603 (1962). https://doi.org/10.1038/193603a0
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