Wheat mutation rate after Chernobyl

Olga Kovalchuk (), Yuri E. Dubrova, Andrey Arkhipov, Barbara Hohn and Igor Kovalchuk
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Olga Kovalchuk: Friedrich Miescher Institute, Novartis Research Foundation
Yuri E. Dubrova: University of Leicester
Andrey Arkhipov: Chernobyl Scientific and Technical Center of International Research
Barbara Hohn: Friedrich Miescher Institute, Novartis Research Foundation
Igor Kovalchuk: Friedrich Miescher Institute, Novartis Research Foundation

Nature, 2000, vol. 407, issue 6804, 583-584

Abstract: Abstract The accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in 1986 has generated concern over the genetic consequences of chronic exposure to radiation. Here we describe a new approach to monitoring germline mutation in plants and find evidence for a remarkably strong induction of germline mutation in wheat upon chronic exposure to ionizing radiation produced by the Chernobyl accident.

Date: 2000
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