The very low levels of efficiency for the induction and detection of mutation events and the production and evaluation of large putative mutant populations constitute significant hindrances to the routine application of induced mutations in plants for crop improvement and functional genomics. Large populations of induced mutants must be produced in order to enhance the chances for identifying the low frequency and largely recessive induced mutations. Equally confounding efforts in induced mutagenesis is the imperative of dissociating chimeras, a problem that is more pronounced with vegetatively propagated plants. Also problematic is the need for homozygousity of the mutated loci so that the induced mutation, usually recessive, could translate to a phenotype. The efficacies of some in vitro techniques in mitigating these constraints significantly have been demonstrated. Some proven methodologies are the incorporations of cell suspension cultures, including somatic embryogenesis; doubled haploidy and rapid in vitro multiplication techniques into the processes for the induction, detection and evaluation of mutation events.