The culture of unpollinated ovules is shown to be a suitable system for the production of haploid sugar beet {Beta vulgaris E.). The yield of haploids depended upon the genotype and varied between 0 and 13 7o with a mean of 1.0 %. Haploid plants could be produced from approximately 50 % of all genotypes examined.The majority of the haploids isolated (about 90 %) maintained the haploid genome level during the in vitro culture and propagation; 10 % of the haploid clones showed a spontaneous doubling to the diploid genome level.
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