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Radiation gives these plants the blues

A genetically engineered plant serves as a botanical Geiger counter to record the gene-altering threat of radioactive pollution in the environment.

References:

Dubrova, Y.E. 1998. Plant transgenics track Chernobyl’s fallout. Nature Biotechnology 16(November):1010.

Kovalchuk, I. . . . B. Hohn. 1998. Transgenic plants are sensitive bioindicators of nuclear pollution caused by the Chernobyl accident. Nature Biotechnology 16(November):1054.

Sources:

Yuri E. Dubrova
University of Leicester
Department of Genetics
Leicester LE1 7RH
United Kingdom

Barbara Hohn
Friedrich Miescher Institute
P.O. Box 2543
CH-4002 Basel
Switzerland

From Science News, Vol. 154, No. 19, November 7, 1998, p. 293.
Copyright Ó 1998 by Science Service.

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