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Effect of Colchicine on Meiosis of Hexaploid Wheat

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HEXAPLOID wheat, Triticum aestium, behaves cytologically as a diploid organism in that only bivalents are formed at meiosis. This diploid behaviour is principally the result of the activity of a gene or genes in the long arm of chromosome 5B (refs. 1–4). In the absence of this gene or genes multivalents are formed involving homoeologous chromosomes5.

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    C. J. DRISCOLL, N. L. DARVEY & H. N. BARBER

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DRISCOLL, C., DARVEY, N. & BARBER, H. Effect of Colchicine on Meiosis of Hexaploid Wheat. Nature 216, 687–688 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/216687a0

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