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Plants naturally have the ability to develop new plants from the microspores. The process of the complete regeneration of a new plant from the microspore culture under laboratory conditions is termed as Androgenesis. Differentiation of the numerous microspore cells leads to the development of embryos which further developed as haploid plants. Certain varieties of the hexaploid wheat (Triticum aestivum) also possess the androgenesis ability. There will be need of artificial treatments in order to flip the microspores to the sporophytic phase from the gametophytic pathway. Embryogenic microspores which are induced artificially contains unique phenotypic characters, also pass through cell division and differentiation in an organised manner. This leads to the embryoids development directly. As certain treatments are given in order to switch the gametophytic phase to the sporophytic phase, the events that occur during the embryoid development to the haploid plants can be easily predicted. Induced treatments help to isolate the microspores by controlling the embryogenesis process. This culture of the microspores isolated using the treatments has been so beneficial in studying the process of androgenesis clearly by understanding the events that occur within the cultured microspores. This further lead to the improvement in the production of the doubled haploids.