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R Rieger1, A Michaelis, S Takehisa
1Institut für Pflanzengenetik und Kulturpflanzenforschung Gatersleben, Germany.
Abstract:
When the temperature during intertreatment time (2 h) between conditioning and challenge treatment of Vicia faba root tip meristems with either triethylenemelamine or maleic hydrazide was reduced from 24 degrees C to 12 degrees C no adaptive response occurred any more. The yield of metaphases with chromatid aberrations under these circumstances was similar to that observed after challenge treatment alone, i.e., no reduction occurred. This indicates that the metabolic state of the cells is of critical importance for the presence or absence of adaptive responses.
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