Ionizing Radiation, Higher Plants, and Radioprotection: From Acute High Doses to Chronic Low Doses.

ABSTRACT: Understanding the effects of ionizing radiation (IR) on plants is important for environmental protection, for agriculture and horticulture, and for space science but plants have significant biological differences to the animals from which much relevant knowledge is derived. The effects of IR on plants are understood best at acute high doses because there have been; (a) controlled experiments in the field using point sources, (b) field studies in the immediate aftermath of nuclear accidents, and (c) controlled laboratory experiments. A compilation of studies of the effects of IR on plants reveals that although there are numerous field studies of the effects of chronic low doses on plants, there are few controlled experiments that used chronic low doses. Using the Bradford-Hill criteria wide

SUBMITTER: Caplin N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6028737 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature