Question

Haploid plant can be obtained from

• A. bud culture
• B. anther culture
• C. root culture
• D. leaf culture

Answer 1

Answer: (B)

anther culture

Answer 2

Haploid plants are those plants which have single set of chromosomes. Pollen grains are haploid as they are produced after meiosis so they are used for haploid production. It was first . made in Datura innoxia by Guha and Maheshwari in $1964$. Haploids are important in plant breeding as mutation can be easily detected in them and they are also used to produce homozygous diploids.