Principles of Plant Breeding (2+1)

Pollen culture

Pollen culture

• Haploids plant can be obtained from pollen grains by planting an anther or isolated pollen grains on a suitable culture medium, this is known as anther or pollen culture.
Applications of Pollen culture:
• It is useful in development of haploids.
  
• Haploids have been obtained by pollen culture in wheat, barley, rice. By doubling the chromosome number of haploid we get homozygous diploids.