[The effect of extracts from Rhododendron aureum Georgi and Artemisia yacutica drod. on wheat root meristem cells division].

A study was made of the action of extracts from two Yakutian plant species in the course of mitosis in the rootlet meristemic tissue in germs of the local variety of common wheat. The examined extracts contain a large amount of biologically active substances and colchicine-like compounds causing (at certain dilutions) the increase in mitotic activity of the meristemic tissue in wheat germs, with simultaneous augmentation of the number of abnormal cells in mitosis, which well compares with the action of 0.01% colchicine solution.