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haploidy

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haploidy.
See haploid.

haploidy [hap´loi-de]
the state of being haploid.

haploidy
the state of being haploid.


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In recent years, technological innovations in genetics and related disciplines have made it possible to direct this evolution by utilizing hybridization, heterosis, polyploidy, mutations, wild crosses, tissue culture, haploidy, protoplast fusion, soma-canal variation, antibody probes and DNA probes.
Haploidy, therefore, is apparently an important step, and diploid cells rarely recover completely.
In the latter supposition especially, in those instances where successes have been achieved, it was only because haploidy or a single dominant gene was involved, there was straightforward expression of the trait in question, and there was adequate plating efficiency and plantlet recovery from the "cells" (Negrutiu et al.
 
 
 
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