Fourteen years after the Chernobyl nuclear accident, crops grown in contaminated land surrounding the former power station show a mutation rate six times higher than normal.
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Kovalchuk, O., Dubrova, Y.E., Arkhipov, A., Hohn, B. & Kovalchuk, I. Wheat DNA mutation rate after Chernobyl. Nature 407, 583 - 584 2000.
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Chernobyl's soiled legacy. Nature (2000). https://doi.org/10.1038/news001005-11
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