Using Colchicine to Create Poinsettia (Euphorbia pulcherrima 3 Euphorbia cornastra) Mutants with Various Morphological Traits

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Commercially available novel cultivars of poinsettia, obtained through interspecific hybridization, were subject to colchicine-based mutagenesis to recover their fertility, enabling subsequent breeding. Mutagenic treatment was conducted at different concentrations of colchicine with either lanolin or cotton serving as the matrix. The results indicated that 1 day was the optimal duration of colchicine treatment and that suitable colchicine concentration varied by cultivar. Moreover, one-time treatment gave higher rates of both polyploidy and morphological mutant production than two-times treatment. Specifically, the poinsettia cultivars Dulce Rosa (5 mg·gL1 colchicine with lanolin; 10 mg·mLL1 colchicine with cotton) and Princettia-Hot Pink (15 mg·gL1 colchicine with lanolin; 10 mg·mLL1 colchicine with cotton) yielded relatively high polyploidy production efficiency and morphological mutation rate. Consequently, a total of three polyploidy mutants of ‘Dulce Rosa’ and 19 polyploidy mutants of ‘Princettia-Hot Pink’ were obtained. Both cultivars had mutants with recovered fertility, with pollen germination rate of up to 27.5%. Moreover, unexpected non-polyploidy mutants with various morphological trait variations were also obtained.

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Pan, I. C., Lu, Y. F., Wen, P. J., & Chen, Y. M. (2019). Using Colchicine to Create Poinsettia (Euphorbia pulcherrima 3 Euphorbia cornastra) Mutants with Various Morphological Traits. HortScience, 54(10), 1667–1672. https://doi.org/10.21273/HORTSCI14143-19

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