Plants experiencing chronic internal exposure to ionizing radiation exhibit higher frequency of homologous recombination than acutely irradiated plants

Mutation Research - Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis

Volumn 449, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 47-56

  Kovalchuk, Olga ^a   Arkhipov, Andrey ^b   Barylyak, Igor ^c   Karachov, Ivan ^c   Titov, Victor ^d   Hohn, Barbara ^a   Kovalchuk, Igor ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH MIESCHER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

^b Chernobyl Sci Tech Ctr Intl Res   (Ukraine)

^c Biochemical Genetics Laboratory   (Ukraine)

^d IVANO FRANKIVSK NATIONAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

Acute exposure; Chronic exposure; Genome stability; Homologous recombination; Ionizing radiation; Plants

Indexed keywords

BETA GLUCURONIDASE; CESIUM 137; PLANT DNA;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DAMAGE; DNA RECOMBINATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; IONIZING RADIATION; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MOLECULAR STABILITY; NONHUMAN; PHYTOTOXICITY; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT SEED; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOBACCO;

DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; PLANTS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; EMBRYOPHYTA; NICOTIANA TABACUM; TABACUM;

EID: 0034599526     PISSN: 00275107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0027-5107(00)00029-4     Document Type: Article

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