“…Anti-mitotic colchicine has proved to be an effective agent for inducing polyploidy, At present, polyploidy has been successfully induced in vivo or in vitro by colchicine in a series of crop species, including banana (Hamill et al 1992;Van Duren et al 1996), mulberry (Chakraborti et al 1998), corn (Barnabas et al 1999), ginger (Adaniya and Shira 2001), hops (Roy et al 2001), pear (Kadota and Niimi 2002), pomegranate (Shao et al 2003), Miscanthus sinensis (Petersen et al 2003), Bixa orellana (Carvalho et al 2005), Platanus acerifolia (Liu et al 2007),Vaccinium darrowii (Chavez and Lyrene 2009), Phlox subulata L. (Zhang et al 2008), and Helleborus (Dhooghe and Van Labeke 2007;Dhooghe et al 2009a, b). Among others, induction of polyploidy has been achieved in many Araceae members, such as Xanthosoma (Esnard et al 1993), Zantedeschia , Alocasia (Thao et al 2003), Spathiphyllum wallisii Regel (Eeckhaut et al 2004), Zamioculcas Zamiifolia (Vanzie-Canton and Leonhardt 2009).…”