Yearly variation of spontaneous somatic mutation frequency in the stamen hairs of Tradescantia clone KU 9 grown outdoors, which showed a significant increase after the Chernobyl accident

Mutation Research - Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis

Volumn 349, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 249-259

  Ichikawa, Sadao ^a   Nakano, Atsushi ^a   Kenmochi, Makoto ^a   Yamamoto, Ikuo ^a   Murai, Motoki ^a   Takahashi, Eiji ^a   Yamaguchi, Akihiko ^a   Watanabe, Katsue ^a   Tomiyama, Michio ^a   Sugiyama, Koichi ^a   Yogo, Akiko ^a   Yazaki, Tohru ^a   Okumura, Mikiko ^a   Shima, Naoko ^a   Satoh, Makoto ^a   Yoshimoto, Masahiro ^a   Xiao, Ling Zhi ^a  

^a SAITAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chernobyl accident; Spontaneous mutation frequency; Temperature effect; Tradescantia stamen hair

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; SOMATIC MUTATION; SPONTANEOUS MUTATION; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; TRADESCANTIA;

TRADESCANTIA; TRADESCANTIA SPP.;

EID: 0030026398     PISSN: 00275107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0027-5107(95)00189-1     Document Type: Article

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