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ACCORDING to Asseyeva1, X-ray treatment of potatoes is “a powerful and reliable means of transforming monochlamydes into dichlamydes”. No details of the treatment used are given in this paper, nor do any appear to have been published in a later paper. It is therefore of some interest to report an X-ray treatment that has given a successful transformation for the potato variety Red King, particularly as similar treatments might also work with periclinal chimæras in plants other than potatoes.
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Asseyeva, T., Bull. App. Bot., Leningrad, 27, iii, 194 (1931) (English text).
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HOWARD, H. Transformation of a Monochlamydius into a Dichlamydius Chimæra by X-ray Treatment. Nature 182, 1620 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1038/1821620a0
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