Radiation BotanyPub Date : 1975-04-01DOI: 10.1016/S0033-7560(75)80014-7
A. Feldmann
{"title":"Beiträge zur strahlenstimulation—IV. Der einfluss von licht- und temperaturänderungen sowie des bestrahlungszeitpunktes auf die strahleninduzierte wachstumsförderung Bei Lemna Minor L.","authors":"A. Feldmann","doi":"10.1016/S0033-7560(75)80014-7","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0033-7560(75)80014-7","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>According to the results of the experiments, the radiation-induced stimulation cannot possibly have its origin in the increase in concentration of a single compound or its activation. There is a far more basic alteration of the organism which continues through many subsequent generations. Such a continuity is necessarily due to another cause. There is a certain parallelism to a dauermodification (persistent modification), both with regard to the steady-state condition and the induction process. The stimulation effects induced by X-irradiation also can be obtained by even a short-time modification of light and temperature conditions. Presumably the same principle of induction exists in both cases.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":20794,"journal":{"name":"Radiation Botany","volume":"15 1","pages":"Pages 49-56, IN1, 57-58"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1975-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0033-7560(75)80014-7","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90377042","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Radiation BotanyPub Date : 1975-04-01DOI: 10.1016/S0033-7560(75)80013-5
B.V. Conger
{"title":"Radioprotective effects of ascorbic acid in barley seeds","authors":"B.V. Conger","doi":"10.1016/S0033-7560(75)80013-5","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0033-7560(75)80013-5","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Experiments were conducted to test the radioprotective effects of a naturally occurring reducing agent, ascorbic acid, on seeds (caryopses) of barley, <em>Hordeum vulgare</em> L. emend Lam. Seeds were soaked either before or after gamma or fission neutron irradiation in distilled water or ascorbic acid solutions ranging in concentration from 0·01 to 1·00 <span>m</span>. Results are reported as percentage germination, seedling height, seedling growth reduction, and (in one experiment) per cent of cells with chromosome aberrations.</p><p>As evidenced by both reduced germination and seedling growth, ascorbic acid was toxic when seeds were soaked for 1 hr at ambient temperature prior to irradiation and then planted immediately. When seeds were soaked in ascorbic acid before irradiation and soaked after irradiation in air-bubbled water at 0 °C for 18 hr, the toxicity disappeared, and a protective effect (which increased with increasing ascorbic acid concentration) was observed for gamma and, to a lesser extent, for neutron irradiation. Additional studies suggested that the protective effect was related to reduced hydration of the embryos of seeds soaked in ascorbic 'acid. Also, no radioprotective effect was observed when seeds were presoaked for 2 or 16 hr in 0·01 Mascorbic acid solutions buffered at pH 3 or pH 7.</p><p>A protective effect was observed for seeds of 1·5 per cent water content soaked after irradiation in an oxygen-bubbled ascorbic acid solution of 0·5 M but was not observed for seeds soaked in nitrogen-bubbled ascorbic acid. The protective effect against oxygen-dependent damage may be a result of interaction of ascorbic acid with radiation-induced free radicals.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":20794,"journal":{"name":"Radiation Botany","volume":"15 1","pages":"Pages 39-48"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1975-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0033-7560(75)80013-5","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84815354","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Radiation BotanyPub Date : 1975-04-01DOI: 10.1016/S0033-7560(75)80017-2
E. Galun, D. Raveh
{"title":"In vitro culture of tobacco protoplasts: Survival of haploid and diploid protoplasts exposed to x-ray radiation at different times after isolation","authors":"E. Galun, D. Raveh","doi":"10.1016/S0033-7560(75)80017-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/S0033-7560(75)80017-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20794,"journal":{"name":"Radiation Botany","volume":"9 1","pages":"79-82"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1975-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82865468","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Radiation BotanyPub Date : 1975-04-01DOI: 10.1016/S0033-7560(75)80016-0
Y. Chauhan, R. Singh
{"title":"Morphological studies in safflower (carthamus tinctorius linn.) with special reference to the effect of 2,4-D and gamma rays—I. Vegetative shoot apex","authors":"Y. Chauhan, R. Singh","doi":"10.1016/S0033-7560(75)80016-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/S0033-7560(75)80016-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20794,"journal":{"name":"Radiation Botany","volume":"27 1","pages":"69-77"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1975-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89905568","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Radiation BotanyPub Date : 1975-04-01DOI: 10.1016/S0033-7560(75)80010-X
P. Bottino, A. Sparrow, S. S. Schwemmer, K. H. Thompson
{"title":"Interrelation of exposure and exposure rate in germinating seeds of barley and its concurrence with dose-rate theory","authors":"P. Bottino, A. Sparrow, S. S. Schwemmer, K. H. Thompson","doi":"10.1016/S0033-7560(75)80010-X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/S0033-7560(75)80010-X","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20794,"journal":{"name":"Radiation Botany","volume":"121 1","pages":"17-27"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1975-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73466624","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Radiation BotanyPub Date : 1975-04-01DOI: 10.1016/S0033-7560(75)80009-3
P.J. Bottino
{"title":"The potential of genetic manipulation in plant cell cultures for plant breeding","authors":"P.J. Bottino","doi":"10.1016/S0033-7560(75)80009-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/S0033-7560(75)80009-3","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><em>In vitro</em> culture of somatic cells of higher plants allows the plant breeder to apply the techniques of microbial genetics to specific breeding problems in crop plants. The basic techniques of callus and suspension culture, haploid plant culture from pollen, protoplast isolation, culture and fusion, and totipotency in plant cell cultures are reviewed. The genetical approaches which have application or potential application to plant breeding are also reviewed. These include selection of mutations in cell cultures, studying host-pathogen inter-relationships, transfer of genetic information into cells through uptake of native DNA, uptake of whole metaphase chromosomes or viral-induced transduction and interspecific hybridization through somatic cell fusion. The major difficulty to the application of many of these techniques to plant breeding programs is the inability to regenerate whole plants from somatic cells in some of the major crop plants. Some techniques such as mutant selection have been and are presently applicable in some crops, but others such as somatic cell fusion still require additional refinement before they will become generally applicable in a plant breeding situation. A survey is made of the present status of the culture methods possible in several important crop plants.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":20794,"journal":{"name":"Radiation Botany","volume":"15 1","pages":"Pages 1-16"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1975-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0033-7560(75)80009-3","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91779783","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Radiation BotanyPub Date : 1975-04-01DOI: 10.1016/S0033-7560(75)80015-9
U. Zutshi, B. Kaul
{"title":"Polyploidy and sensitivity to alkylating mutagens","authors":"U. Zutshi, B. Kaul","doi":"10.1016/S0033-7560(75)80015-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/S0033-7560(75)80015-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20794,"journal":{"name":"Radiation Botany","volume":"64 1","pages":"59-68"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1975-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91406596","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Radiation BotanyPub Date : 1975-04-01DOI: 10.1016/S0033-7560(75)80011-1
E.V.V. Bhaskara Rao, V.R. Reddi
{"title":"A radiation-induced highly productive mutant in sorghum","authors":"E.V.V. Bhaskara Rao, V.R. Reddi","doi":"10.1016/S0033-7560(75)80011-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/S0033-7560(75)80011-1","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The possibility of using induced mutations for developing highly productive lines of Sorghum were examined herein. Mutant plants arising in the progeny of induced interchange heterozygotes of grain <em>Sorghum</em> variety I. S. 3566 were studied. The mutants were classified and considered under three different height classes of “2-Dwarf”, “1-Dwarf” and “0-Dwarf”. The “2-Dwarf” (tall) plants were observed to produce more grains than the “3-Dwarf ” (short) controls. Other vegetative and panicle characters in the apparently true-breeding mutant were also affected including increased numbers of leaves, nodes and productive tillers. The mutant plant produced red grains on compact panicles of reduced length compared to chalky white grains on the semicompact panicles of the untreated controls. An increase in grain weight of about 21 per cent was shown in selfed progenies studied through successive generations. The observed increase in yield can be traced to an increased number of grains produced on the main and tiller panicles.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":20794,"journal":{"name":"Radiation Botany","volume":"15 1","pages":"Pages 29-32"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1975-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0033-7560(75)80011-1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91779784","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Radiation BotanyPub Date : 1975-04-01DOI: 10.1016/S0033-7560(75)80012-3
G.W. Burton , W.G. Monson , W.W. Hanna , M.J. Constantin
{"title":"Silage production and quality of pearl millet, sorghum, and corn hybrids grown from seed exposed to low doses of gamma rays","authors":"G.W. Burton , W.G. Monson , W.W. Hanna , M.J. Constantin","doi":"10.1016/S0033-7560(75)80012-3","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0033-7560(75)80012-3","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Just before planting, seeds of pearl millet, <em>Pennisetum americanum</em> (L.) K. Schum., (formerly <em>P. typhoides</em>) hybrid, “Tift 23 × li”, and corn, <em>Zea mays</em> L., hybrids “Coker 71”, “DeKalb 1214”, and “Pioneer 3030” were exposed to gamma ray dosages of 0, 0·15, 0·3, 0·6, 1·2, 2·4, 4·8, 9·6, and 19·2 kR. “FS26” hybrid sorghum, <em>Sorghum bicolor</em> (L.) Moench., seeds were exposed to gamma ray dosages of 0, 0·2, 0·4, 0·8, 1·6, 3·2, 6·4, 12·8, and 25·6 kR. In one 2-yr. experiment, pearl millet, sorghum, and Coker 71 corn gave respective dry matter yields of 12, 166, 6, 993, and 6,306 kg/ha and <em>in vitro</em> dry matter digestibility (IVDMD) percentages of 45·7, 52·8, and 59·9. The heaviest exposures of gamma rays generally reduced yields of all species, and lighter exposures failed to increase yield significantly. Seed irradiation did not affect the quality (IVDMD) of the forage. In a 2-yr. corn hybrid experiment, DeKalb 1214 yielded 24% more dry matter and tolerated the heavy exposures of gamma rays better than Pioneer 3030 and Coker 71. None of the lower exposures increased yield significantly.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":20794,"journal":{"name":"Radiation Botany","volume":"15 1","pages":"Pages 33-38"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1975-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0033-7560(75)80012-3","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88517627","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}