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X-rays apart from inducing changes in morphology, have brought significant changes in the alkaloid content ofRauvolfia serpentina. Treatment with 51 kR proved to be the most suitable dose for the same.
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Communicated by Dr. E. K. Janaki Ammal,f.a.sc.
N.B.—This work forms part of the Ph.D. Thesis submitted to the University of Jammu and Kashmir, Srinagar.
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Parimoo (nee’ Dhar), R.D. High alkaloid yielding mutant inRauvolfia serpentina benth. Proc. Indian Acad. Sci. 79, 251–256 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03045456
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