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The effects of methyl methanesulphonate on mitosis and chromosomes of excised barley embryos

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Biologia Plantarum

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Excised barley embryos were treated with methyl methanesulphonate and cultivatedin vitro in water or in a nutrient medium. The alkylating compound induced a high frequency of chromosome aberrations observed at anaphase and metaphase and depressed the mitotic division in the root-tips of excised embryos.

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  1. Institute of Experimental Botany, Czechoslovak Academy of Scienoes, Flemingovo n. 2, 160 00, Praha 6, Czechoslovakia

    T. Gichner, M. Ondřej, Lim En Se & J. Velemínský

  2. Institute of Experimental Biology, Aoademy of Soiences, Pyongyang, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea

    Lim En Se

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Gichner, T., Ondřej, M., Se, L.E. et al. The effects of methyl methanesulphonate on mitosis and chromosomes of excised barley embryos. Biol Plant 18, 397–400 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02922473

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