Author(s)

Syed Amir Manzoor^1*, Asim Riaz², Tanzeela Zafar³, Muhammad Hassan⁴, Hafiz Muhammad Imran Umar⁴, Javed Hassan⁴, Waseem Alam⁴, Saleh Muhammad⁵, Mudassir Mahmood⁵, Hamza Sohail⁶, Tanveer Aslam⁴, Feehan Hassan⁴, Fahim Abbas⁷, Muhammad Faseeh Iqbal⁸

¹Department of Forestry, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan.
²Department of Pharmacy Health and Well-Being, University of Sunderland, Sunderland, UK.
³Centre of Agricultural Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan.
⁴Department of Plant Breeding & Genetics, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan.
⁵Department of Entomology, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan.
⁶Department of Horticulture, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan.
⁷Nanjing Agriculture University, Nanjing, China.
⁸Department of Soil Science, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan.

This study was planned to assess genetic variation in Jatropha curcas as affected by colchichine treatments. During the experiment, seeds of Jatropha curcas were collected from mature and healthy Jatropha plants and were soaked in different concentrations of colchicines. The second treatment was that of time of soaking (seeds were soaked in different concentrations for different time durations). The results clearly revealed that by increasing the concentration of colchicine treatment, parameters like stomatal density, and size of the guard cells were reduced.

Jatropha, Polyploidy, Colchicine, Biofuel

Manzoor, S. , Riaz, A. , Zafar, T. , Hassan, M. , Imran Umar, H. , Hassan, J. , Alam, W. , Muhammad, S. , Mahmood, M. , Sohail, H. , Aslam, T. , Hassan, F. , Abbas, F. and Iqbal, M. (2016) Improving Growth Performance of Jatropha curcas by Inducing Polyploidy through Colchicine Treatment. American Journal of Plant Sciences, 7, 769-772. doi: 10.4236/ajps.2016.76070.