Influence of climatic conditions on the mutations in pollen mother cells of Tradescantia clone 4430 and implications for the Trad-MCN bioassay protocol

Hereditas

Volumn 141, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 142-148

  Klumpp, Andreas ^a   Ansel, Wolfgang ^a   Fomin, Anette ^a   Schnirring, Sandra ^a   Pickl, Christina ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^b ÖkoTox Ltd   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MALEIC HYDRAZIDE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; CLIMATE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; EXPERIMENTATION; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GENE MUTATION; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HUMIDITY; LOW TEMPERATURE; MEIOSIS; MICRONUCLEUS TEST; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; POLLEN MOTHER CELL; TRADESCANTIA; WATER POLLUTION; WATER SAMPLING;

BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; CLIMATE; HUMIDITY; MICRONUCLEUS TESTS; MUTATION; POLLEN; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS; TRADESCANTIA;

TRADESCANTIA;

EID: 10444250195     PISSN: 00180661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1601-5223.2004.01806.x     Document Type: Article

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