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Sensitivity of rice to ultraviolet-B radiation.
Annals of botany - 1 Jun 2006
Hidema Jun, Kumagai Tadashi
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Depletion of the stratospheric ozone layer leads to an increase in ultraviolet-B (UVB: 280-320 nm) radiation reaching the earth's surface, and the enhanced solar UVB radiation predicted by atmospheric models will result in reduction of growth and yield of crops in the future. Over the last two decades, extensive studies of the physiological, biochemical and morphological effects of UVB in plants, as...
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