Quote Originally Posted by maodiver View Post
Triploids are like Bonds...altered. don't they have extra chromasome?
Maodiver,
Technically i would probably still have the same number of sets of chromosomes, but instead of having sets composed of pairs, it has sets composed of threes. It is therefore a rather different beast. It might still be listed as the same speices, but I think that it should be handled differently for record-keeping. For whatever it is worth, species of wheats come as diploids (chromosomes in pairs), tetraploids (chromosomes in groups of 4), and hexaploids (chromosomes in groups of 6). All of this is natural with no lab-work by man. The diploids are the oldest species. Bread wheats are mostly hexaploids, the most recent species.

Ed