“…Wanad, used in this study, was earlier successfully used for optimization of procedures for double haploid technology and for identification of physiological parameters important for effective induction of androgenesis (Zur et al, 2008(Zur et al, , 2009. Microspores and structures induced toward androgenic development were observed at 63% frequency, with 2.2-11.4% initial mitotic divisions (Zur et al in preparation, personal communication The morphology resulting from these changes, called star-like structure, has been observed in other species, both dicots such as tobacco (Garrido et al, 1995;Touraev et al, 1996aTouraev et al, , 1997 or rape seed (Zaki and Dickinson, 1990) and monocots such as wheat (Touraev et al, 1996b), barley (de Maraschin et al, 2005 a,b), rice (Bajaj, 1990;Raina and Irfan, 1998), maize (Testillano et al, 2002;Obert et al, 2005) and triticale (Oleszczuk et al, 2004). This star-like morphology has been recognized as the initial step of microspore embryogenic development (Indrianto et al, 1999;Touraev et al, 2000).…”