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A chemically induced new pea (Pisum sativum) mutant SGECdt with increased tolerance to, and accumulation of, cadmium.
Annals of botany - 1 Feb 2007
Tsyganov Viktor E, Belimov Andrei A, Borisov Alexey Y, Safronova Vera I, Georgi Manfred, Dietz Karl-Josef, Tikhonovich Igor A
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BACKGROUND AND AIMS: To date, there are no crop mutants described in the literature that display both Cd accumulation and tolerance. In the present study a unique pea (Pisum sativum) mutant SGECd(t) with increased Cd tolerance and accumulation was isolated and characterized. METHODS: Ethylmethane sulfonate mutagenesis of the pea line SGE was used to obtain the mutant. Screening for Cd-tolerant seedlings in the M2...
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