Multiple radicles and plumules were produced in high frequencies in selfed seed of six plants in pearl millet (L.S. 326–3). Ninety-five of these survived to maturity. All were diploids, except in one twin where a trisomic (2n+1) was found. The occurrence of albino twins in progenies of heterozygous plants, and normal homozygotes in twins from translocation heterozygotes suggests their origin through sexual reproduction. The origin of the remaining twins and triplets is not known with certainty.
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Rao et al. (1986) studied this question.