“…Flow cytometry has been widely applied for the analysis of animal cells (Curran, 1999) and more recently, plants cells (Doležel et al, 2007a,b) following the advent of simple and reproducible methods for tissue analysis (Galbraith et al, 1983;Doležel et al, 2007a,b). Applications to plant cell analysis include, but are not limited to, differentiation between cells within a mixed cell population, analysis of chemical composition of different tissues, measurement of secondary metabolite accumulation and ploidy determination following haplo-diploidization (Yanpaisan et al, 1999;Doležel et al, 2007a,b;Ochatt, 2008).…”