Unit of Cytogeneties, Department of Botany, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India.
In the outcrossed populations of Coix aquatica maintained in the Botanical Garden of Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathawada University, few plants were isolated which exhibited the phenomena of reciprocal translocations. The pollen mother cell showed chains or rings of chromosomes of various sizes at diakinesis. These plants showed complex interchanges involving up to eight and rarely ten chromosomes at diakinesis. The plants exhibited semi-sterility.
Outcrossed population, reciprocal translocation, complex interchanges, semi-sterility
