Article
Genetic consequences of radioactive contamination by the Chernobyl fallout to agricultural crops.
Journal of environmental radioactivity - 1 Jan 2003
Geraskin S A, Dikarev V G, Zyablitskaya Ye Ya, Oudalova A A, Spirin Ye V, Alexakhin R M
Abstract excerpt
The genetic consequences of radioactive contamination by the fallout to agricultural crops after the accident at the Chernobyl NPP in 1986 have been studied. In the first, acute, period of this accident, when the absorbed dose was primarily due to external beta- and gamma-irradiation, the radiation injury of agricultural crops, according to the basic cytogenetic tests, resembled the effect produced by acute...
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