Table 1.

Effect ofin vitroversusin vivocolchicine treatment

Colchicine treatment	Transferred embryos	Regeneration rate	Green plants [%]	Survival rate [%]
24 h - 0 mM	330	42.4 a	54.3 a	85.5 a
24 h - 0.3 mM	240	39.2 a	61.7 ab	81.0 ab
24 h - 1 mM	240	41.7 a	72.0 ab	83.3 ab
24 h - 5 mM	180	41.7 a	65.3 ab	71.4 ab
48 h - 0 mM	210	43.3 a	75.8 b	62.3 bc
48 h - 0.3 mM	240	47.1 a	59.3 ab	82.1 ab
48 h - 1 mM	240	47.1 a	69.0 ab	43.6 cd
48 h - 5 mM	120	24.2 b	41.4 a	50.0 ab
72 h - 0 mM	210	42.4 a	48.3 a	60.5 b
72 h - 0.3 mM	240	43.8 a	69.5 ab	68.5 ab
72 h - 1 mM	240	33.3 a	62.5 ab	64.0 ab
72 h - 5 mM	270	26.3 b	71.8 ab	62.7 ab
in vivo	835	58.8 c	70.9 b	44.0 d

Survival rate refers to the rate of plants that survived the transfer from culture medium to soil and grew to maturity. Means of columns followed by different letters indicate significant differences at the α = 0.05 level.