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In Situ monitoring with tradescantia around NPP's (1981)
| Author | S.Ichikawa |
| Date | 1981 |
| Classification | 6.01.4.60/11 (RADIATION - AROUND FACILITIES) |
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In Situ Monitoring with Tradescantia around Nuclear Power Plants by Sadao lchikawa* Introduction The stamen-hair system of some specific clones of Tradescantia has been demonstrated to be an excellent botanical test system to study the genetic effects of physical and chemical mutagens (1-9). Those clones are all heterozygotes for flower and stamen color (blue/pink; the blue color being dominant), and have been established at Brookhaven National Laboratory (clones 02, 2031 and 4430) or at Kyoto University (clones KU 7, KU 9 and KU 20). The characteristics of the Tradescantia stamen-hair system, that is, the capability of detecting all pink mutant cells easily without being concealed by other cell (see Fig. 1) as well as the relative ease of handling a great number of samples, have proved to be especially suitable for studying the genetic effects of low-level radiation (7, 8, 10-16) and even the variation of spontaneous mutation frequency (17, 18).
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