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The very low mutagenic activity of sodium azide inArabidopsis thaliana

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Biologia Plantarum

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Sodium azide, reported to be a strong mutagen in barley, revealed a very weak mutagenic activity inArabidopsis.

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  1. Institute of Experimental Botany, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Flemingovo n. 2, 160 00, Praha 6, Czechoslovakia

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Gichner, T., Velemínský, J. The very low mutagenic activity of sodium azide inArabidopsis thaliana . Biol Plant 19, 153–155 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02926758

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