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Keywords: the problems of demand and supply of genetic variability, induced mutations as sources of plant genetic diversity, techniques of inducing, selecting and utilizing mutations, development of azide as a mutagen, effect of prolonged presoaking on chlorophyll-deficient seedling mutations induced by sodium azide in barley, mutation specificity, nature of induced and spontaneous mutations, kinds of induced mutants, uses of induced mutants, sexually reproducing species and selection techniques, methods of breeding with induced mutants, vegetatively propagated species, induced mutant varieties and their economic impact, released induced mutant varieties, induced new genetic variability, induction of new alleles and detection of new loci, induction of cytoplasmic mutations