What is a method for determining the ploidy of plant embryos at a very early stage?

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If I have a liquid culture of developing embryos, which will include haploid, doubled-haploid (diploid) and a small amount of tetraploids, I'd ideally like to do something to kill off all the non diploids, or if that is not possible, develop a method to select out only the diploid plants, once the embryos have grown to the torpedo stage (around 2-3 mm in size). A stain which would produce a visible difference would be best.

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