Abstract
The formation of a new variety of katokkon chili through mutation breeding using colchicine was conducted in this study. This study aims to determine the effect of the phenotypic leaf characters of katokkon chili pepper resulting from polyploidization with colchicine. The study was conducted at the Malino Horticulture Seed Garden Installation, Tinggimoncong District, Gowa Regency, South Sulawesi at an altitude of 1047 m above sea level. This study used samples of katokkon chili pepper plants that had been induced by colchicine and were analyzed using flow cytometry. The results showed that treatment with 0.10% colchicine concentration and 48 hours of soaking time and 0.20% colchicine concentration and 24 and 48 hours of soaking time that is tetraploid detected plant affected on darker leaf color and irregular branching shape compared to wild-type. At the same time, tetraploid plants leaf length, width and thickness did not show significant differences with diploid and mixoploid plants.
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