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Chronic Ionizing Radiation of Plants: An Evolutionary Factor from Direct Damage to Non-Target Effects
In present times, the levels of ionizing radiation (IR) on the surface of Earth are relatively low, posing no high challenges for the survival of contemporary life forms. IR derives from natural sources and naturally occurring radioactive materials (NORM), the nuclear industry, medical applications,...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10005729/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36904038 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/plants12051178 |
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author | Duarte, Gustavo Turqueto Volkova, Polina Yu. Fiengo Perez, Fabricio Horemans, Nele |
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description | In present times, the levels of ionizing radiation (IR) on the surface of Earth are relatively low, posing no high challenges for the survival of contemporary life forms. IR derives from natural sources and naturally occurring radioactive materials (NORM), the nuclear industry, medical applications, and as a result of radiation disasters or nuclear tests. In the current review, we discuss modern sources of radioactivity, its direct and indirect effects on different plant species, and the scope of the radiation protection of plants. We present an overview of the molecular mechanisms of radiation responses in plants, which leads to a tempting conjecture of the evolutionary role of IR as a limiting factor for land colonization and plant diversification rates. The hypothesis-driven analysis of available plant genomic data suggests an overall DNA repair gene families’ depletion in land plants compared to ancestral groups, which overlaps with a decrease in levels of radiation exposure on the surface of Earth millions of years ago. The potential contribution of chronic IR as an evolutionary factor in combination with other environmental factors is discussed. |
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spelling | pubmed-100057292023-03-11 Chronic Ionizing Radiation of Plants: An Evolutionary Factor from Direct Damage to Non-Target Effects Duarte, Gustavo Turqueto Volkova, Polina Yu. Fiengo Perez, Fabricio Horemans, Nele Plants (Basel) Review In present times, the levels of ionizing radiation (IR) on the surface of Earth are relatively low, posing no high challenges for the survival of contemporary life forms. IR derives from natural sources and naturally occurring radioactive materials (NORM), the nuclear industry, medical applications, and as a result of radiation disasters or nuclear tests. In the current review, we discuss modern sources of radioactivity, its direct and indirect effects on different plant species, and the scope of the radiation protection of plants. We present an overview of the molecular mechanisms of radiation responses in plants, which leads to a tempting conjecture of the evolutionary role of IR as a limiting factor for land colonization and plant diversification rates. The hypothesis-driven analysis of available plant genomic data suggests an overall DNA repair gene families’ depletion in land plants compared to ancestral groups, which overlaps with a decrease in levels of radiation exposure on the surface of Earth millions of years ago. The potential contribution of chronic IR as an evolutionary factor in combination with other environmental factors is discussed. MDPI 2023-03-04 /pmc/articles/PMC10005729/ /pubmed/36904038 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/plants12051178 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Review Duarte, Gustavo Turqueto Volkova, Polina Yu. Fiengo Perez, Fabricio Horemans, Nele Chronic Ionizing Radiation of Plants: An Evolutionary Factor from Direct Damage to Non-Target Effects |
title | Chronic Ionizing Radiation of Plants: An Evolutionary Factor from Direct Damage to Non-Target Effects |
title_full | Chronic Ionizing Radiation of Plants: An Evolutionary Factor from Direct Damage to Non-Target Effects |
title_fullStr | Chronic Ionizing Radiation of Plants: An Evolutionary Factor from Direct Damage to Non-Target Effects |
title_full_unstemmed | Chronic Ionizing Radiation of Plants: An Evolutionary Factor from Direct Damage to Non-Target Effects |
title_short | Chronic Ionizing Radiation of Plants: An Evolutionary Factor from Direct Damage to Non-Target Effects |
title_sort | chronic ionizing radiation of plants: an evolutionary factor from direct damage to non-target effects |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10005729/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36904038 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/plants12051178 |
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