Elevated UV-B radiation reduces genome stability in plants

Nature

Volumn 406, Issue 6791, 2000, Pages 98-101

  Ries, Gerhard ^a   Heller, Werner ^b   Puchta, Holger ^a,c   Sandermann, Helnrich ^b   Seldlitz, Harald K ^b   Hohn, Barbara ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH MIESCHER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

^b INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PLANT GENETICS AND CROP PLANT RESEARCH IPK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC STABILITY; NONHUMAN; OZONE LAYER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULTRAVIOLET B RADIATION;

ARABIDOPSIS; DNA REPAIR; DNA, PLANT; GENOME, PLANT; PLANTS, TOXIC; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; TOBACCO; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

ARABIDOPSIS; NICOTIANA OBTUSIFOLIA; NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 0034612505     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35017595     Document Type: Article

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