Download or read book Progress and Opportunities of Doubled Haploid Production written by Muhammad Asif and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-07-17 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deals with the historical perspectives and the current status of doubled haploid production along with its practical implications in basic and applied research. It highlights various haploid production methods with a comprehensive discussion on their pros and cons, bottlenecks, and embryogenic pathways. The review also describes in detail the results of molecular and genomic studies conducted to investigate the underlying principles of this spectacular technique that has changed the status of many species from recalcitrant to responsive over the last ninety years. ​