Population
Dormant seeds of Hordeum vulgare, Avena species, and Triticum species with varying chromosome numbers.
Comparison
Unfiltered X-ray radiation for 5, 10, 20, 30, or… vs Comparison across species with different ploidy…
Design
Preclinical
Follow-up
Seedling stage
Authors
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Ploidy effects on mutation expression merit consideration in genetic models; leaves open relevance to diploid mammalian systems.
Polyploidy in oats and wheat masks recessive mutations induced by X-rays due to gene reduplication across multiple chromosome groups.
L. J. Stadler (1929) studied this question.
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