Indian Journal of Genetics and Plant Breeding (The)
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  • Year: 1968
  • Volume: 28
  • Issue: 3

Spindle abnormalities in Saccharum

  • Author:
  • M. P. Alexander
  • Total Page Count: 6
  • Page Number: 359 to 364

Sugarcane Breeding Institute, Coimbatore, India

Abstract

Abnormal spindles such as accessory spindles, multipolar spindles and half spindles were observed in Co. 602, a complex hybrid sugarcane. The role of these abnormalities in producing unusual chromosome numbers in the gametes and in parthenogenetic seedlings is discussed.