Article
Somatic mutation frequencies in the stamen hairs of Tradescantia grown in soil samples from the Bikini Island.
Idengaku zasshi - 1 Feb 1991
Ichikawa S, Ishii C
Abstract excerpt
Somatic pink mutation frequencies in the stamen hairs of Tradescantia BNL 02 clone grown for 76 days in two soil samples taken from the Bikini Island (where a hydrogen bomb explosion test had been conducted in 1954) were investigated. A significantly high mutation frequency (2.58 +/- 0.17 pink mutant events per 10(3) hairs or 1.34 +/- 0.09 pink mutant events per 10(4) hair-cell divisions) was observed for the...
Topics
- Micronesia
- Mutation
- Nuclear Warfare
- Plants
- Soil Pollutants, Radioactive
