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Seeds or the seedling plants grown from seeds have been used as biological test material from the beginning of radiobiology28. Barley seeds in particular have figured in important scientific advances. Stadler (1928), for example, used barley and later maize for his experiments on the artificial mutation of the gene in plants. It is also of some significance that the same variety of barley, Himalaya (C. I. 620), treated by Stadler is even more widely used today as an international radiobiological research standard. Himalaya barley is also extensively used for physiological and biochemical studies and in chemical mutagenesis research9, 13,15,16,27.
Scientific Paper No. 3755. College of Agriculture and Research Center, Washington State University, Pullman, Projects 1068 and 1746 and Publication No. GEN 461 of the Instituto de Fitotecnia, C.N.I.A.I.N.T.A., Castelar, Argentina. Supported in part by the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission Contract AT(45-1)-2221. AEC Paper RLO-2221-T2-9.
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Konzak, C.F., Favret, E.A. (1972). Seed Meristems as Radiobiological Test Systems. In: Miller, M.W., Kuehnert, C.C. (eds) The Dynamics of Meristem Cell Populations. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 18. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-3207-7_14
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