“…2, 3, 4, Table 1) making Sandersonia a commercially viable source of colchicine, provided it can be propagated at a fast rate. Numerous researchers have tried to isolate chemicals with the ability to induce polyploidy, "colchicine is still the only alkaloid that fulfils the different requirements of an effective polyploidising agent" (Narain and Raina 1975). Colchicine is less effective on cold-blooded than on warm-blooded animals.…”