RE: colchicine

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• To: "'hosta-open@mallorn.com'" <hosta-open@mallorn.com>
• Subject: RE: colchicine
• From: R* G* <r*@centrelab.com>
• Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 08:29:30 -0500

Colchicine is a highly toxic poison used to double the number of chromosomes
in a cell.  You use it to take a diploid and turn it into a tetraploid.
There are advantages and disadvantages to doing this.  

I will post information and pictures re procedures later this spring.
Rick Grazzini
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