Fallout decay simulation experiments with the stamen hairs of stable and mutable Tradescantia clones

Environmental and Experimental Botany

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 173-184

  Ichikawa, Sadao ^a   Yamamoto, Ikuo ^a   Murai, Motoki ^a   Watanabe, Katsue ^a  

^a SAITAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

fallout simulation; gamma rays; mutable clone; stamen hairs; Tradescantia

Indexed keywords

TRADESCANTIA;

EID: 0030187494     PISSN: 00988472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0098-8472(96)01006-4     Document Type: Article

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