and embryos. The first reports on the application of colchicine in pepper breeding concern the induction of tetraploid and octoploid plants after the use of 0.3% of the colchicine solution transferred onto apical meristems of diploid seedlings (Panda et al., 1984). Chambonet (1988) presented a similar method for pepper haploids which involved topping the
plants to abandon the apical dominance and removing lateral buds.