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Table 3 Mortality rate (%) in M1 plants for each selected EMS concentration (%)

From: DHPLC technology for high-throughput detection of mutations in a durum wheat TILLING population

EMS (%)

Seed quantity (gr)

N° of seeds

N° of M1 plants

Mortality rate (%)

0.70

720

9,600

2,000

79.2

0.75

1,080

14,400

3,400

76.4

0.80

360

4,800

984

79.5

0.85

280

3,200

361

88.7

Total

2,440

32,000

6,745

78.9