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by Kenneth Lee

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How plants cope with the damaging effects of UV radiation

The identification of an Arabidopsis mutant that is hypersensitive to UV radiation provides an insight into how plants cope with genotoxic stress.

Email: Kenneth Lee - kenlee_fr@yahoo.fr
News from The Scientist 2001, 2(1):20010316-03

Published

16 March 2001

Because of their dependence on sunlight for photosynthesis, plants are also exposed to the DNA-damaging effects of ultraviolet (UV) radiation. In the 15 March Genes & Development, Roman Ulm of the Friedrich Miescher Institute in Basel and co-workers report on how plants cope with genotoxic stresses, such as UV radiation (Genes Dev 2001, 15:699-709).

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