STRUCTURAL CHANGES PRODUCED IN LEAF TISSUE OF SOY BEAN PLANTS BY IRRADIATION OF THE DRY SEEDS WITH SOFT X-RAYS
- 1 January 1937
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Plant Physiology
- Vol. 12 (1) , 191-197
- https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.12.1.191
Abstract
Dry dormant Wilson black soy beans were irradiated with soft X-rays (maximum intensity at 1.54 A.). The leaves on plants grown from these seeds showed 6 types of injury, judged by external appearance and internal structural changes. Light areas had less than the normal number of chloro-plasts and a small amount of chlorophyll; dark areas had enlarged chloroplasts, often clumped together, with much chlorophyll; albino areas had very few chloroplasts with no chlorophyll and greatly altered cell shapes. Large X-ray dosages tended to produce globular cells with abnormally arranged contents and to produce imperfectly developed leaves.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- MODIFICATION OF LEAF STRUCTURE BY X-RAYSPlant Physiology, 1935