“…Subsequently, the researchers have studied various factors for attaining a sufficient number of haploids in different genotypes of rice (Forster et al, 2007; Mishra et al, 2016; Tripathy et al, 2019). These include physiology of the donor plant, developmental stages of the pollen, anther wall composition, and media components including nutritional sources and growth regulators (Tripathy et al, 2019). Anthers collected at the commencement of flowering, that is, early to miduninucleate stage showed a better response in comparison with the later or binucleate stage which declines with the age of plants (Chen & Lin, 1976; Guha‐Mukherjee, 1973; Mishra & Rao, 2016; Silva, 2010).…”