DNA damage in potato plants induced by cadmium, ethyl methanesulphonate and γ-rays

Environmental and Experimental Botany

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 113-119

  Gichner, Tomáš ^a   Patková, Zdeňka ^a   Száková, Jiřina ^b   Žnidar, Irena ^c   Mukherjee, Anita ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY   (Czech Republic)

^b CZECH UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA   (India)

Author keywords

Comet assay; Solanum tuberosum L.

Indexed keywords

BIOASSAY; CADMIUM; CULTIVAR; DNA; GAMMA RAY RADIATION; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA METHOD; POTATO;

SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 36549027414     PISSN: 00988472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envexpbot.2007.07.013     Document Type: Article

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