Transgenic plants are sensitive bioindicators of nuclear pollution caused by the Chernobyl accident

Nature Biotechnology

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 1054-1059

  Kovalchuk, Igor ^a,b   Kovalchuk, Olga ^a,b   Arkhipov, Andrey ^c   Hohn, Barbara ^b  

^a IVANO FRANKIVSK NATIONAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Ukraine)

^b FRIEDRICH MIESCHER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

^c Chernobyl Sci Tech Ctr Intl Res   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis thaliana; Radiation; Recombination

Indexed keywords

BETA GLUCURONIDASE; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; MARKER GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; ONION; PLANT GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION; SOIL POLLUTION; TRANSGENE;

ACCIDENTS, RADIATION; ANIMALS; ARABIDOPSIS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; DNA, PLANT; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIOACTIVE FALLOUT; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SOIL POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; UKRAINE;

ALLIUM CEPA; ANIMALIA; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; HIRUNDO;

EID: 0031770018     PISSN: 10870156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/3505     Document Type: Article

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