Citation: DS Brar, Gurdev S Khush. 1986. Wide hybridization and chromosome manipulation in cereals. Pages 221-263. In: DA Evans, W R Sharp, PV Ammirato (editors). Handbook of Plant Cell Culture. Vol. 4 Techniques and Applications. MacMillan Publishing Co., New York. ISBN 1578082374

Keywords: Oryza sativa, rice breeding, chromosome number of common cereals, barriers to wide hybridization, failure of pollen germination, slow pollen tube growth, elimination of chromosomes, hybrid nonviability, hybrid sterility, techniques for overcoming \crossability barriers, embryo rescue, somatic cell hybridization, problems in the utilization of hybrids, allocycly, nuclear instability, lack of recombination, deleterious genes, undesirable linkages, alien gene transfer, use of wild species, examples of wide crosses