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Plant adaptation to heavy metal and radioactive pollution (PLANT DNA TOLERANCE)
Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2017,
Anthropogenic activities continue to impact the environment causing soil and ground water contamination in many regions and the effects are often persistent especially where heavy metals and radioactive substances have been released. Ecological problems can be particularly severe in the case of atomic power facilities and recent occurrences (Japan) indicate that the Chernobyl incident in 1986 was ...
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The quantitative proteomics analysis of developing embryo, endosperm and seed coat in control and Chernobyl-grown plants (Proteomics of Cherno)
Start date: Sep 3, 2007, End date: Sep 2, 2011,
With each passing year since Chernobyl accident, more questions arise about the potential for organisms adapt to radiation exposure. The explosion of one of the four reactors of Chernobyl nuclear power plant on 26 April 1986 caused worst environmental nuclear disaster in the history. It transported vast amounts of radioactive material into the atmosphere, much of which was subsequently deposited ...
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