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Adaptation of greater plantain, Plantago major L., to long-term radiation and chemical exposure

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A comparative study of the greater plantain seed progeny was performed with samples from cenopopulations growing for a long time under conditions of radioactive contamination (in the Eastern Ural Radioactive Trace, EURT) or chemical pollution (in the impact zone of the Nizhny Tagil Iron and Steel Works, NTMK). The progeny of plants from the NTMK zone had low viability but proved to be resistant to the additional impact of a “new” factor (acute γ-irradiation) as well as of the “habitual” factor (heavy metal toxicity). Plantain seeds from the EURT area showed high viability and low heavy metal and radiation resistance; i.e., no preadaptation effect was revealed. In experiments on growing plants from different cenopopulations in plot culture, samples from the EURT zone were characterized mainly by morphoses of generative organs, while samples from the NTMK area, by morphoses of vegetative organs.

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    V. N. Pozolotina, E. V. Antonova & N. S. Shimalina

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Pozolotina, V.N., Antonova, E.V. & Shimalina, N.S. Adaptation of greater plantain, Plantago major L., to long-term radiation and chemical exposure. Russ J Ecol 47, 1–10 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1067413616010124

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