TABLE 6.2 Examples of polyploid crop plants
Plant Type of polyploidy Chromosome   sets Chromosome  number
Potato Autopolyploid 4n 48
Banana Autopolyploid 3n 33
Peanut Autopolyploid 4n 40
Sweet potato Autopolyploid 6n 90
Tobacco Allopolyploid 4n 48
Cotton Allopolyploid 4n 52
Wheat Allopolyploid 6n 42
Oats Allopolyploid 6n 42
Sugarcane Allopolyploid 8n 80
Strawberry Allopolyploid 8n 56

Source: After F. C. Elliot, Plant Breeding and Cytogenetics (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1958).