biologia plantarum

International journal on Plant Life established by Bohumil Němec in 1959

Biologia plantarum 15:44-49, 1973 | DOI: 10.1007/BF02922512

Effect of allylisothiocyanate on nuclear division inPisun sativum

Zdenka PazourkovÁ1
1 Department of Genetic, Microbiology and Biophysic, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Charles University, Praha 2, Czechoslovakia

In the course of the study of the effect of allylisothiocyanate in a 10-4 dilution on the mitosis ofPisum sativum root tips, some cells with typical meiotic configurations were found. After 92 h of treatment about 2% of the dividing cells were in the state resembling a so called somatic reduction.

Received: February 23, 1972; Published: January 1, 1973  Show citation

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PazourkovÁ, Z. (1973). Effect of allylisothiocyanate on nuclear division inPisun sativum. Biologia plantarum, 15(1), 44-49. doi: 10.1007/BF02922512
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