The Rejuvenation by means of the Storage Effect: An Universal Method

This study summarizes the results of 30 years of our experiments with Vicia faba L seeds. Vicia faba seeds were chosen as an optimal model for testing of a storage effect. They were treated both with non-alkylating mutagen (MH) and alkylating mutagen (MMS) and stored at 50 % water content for 0, 14 and 28 days. Evaluation with CAs, SSBs, DSBs and UDS showed this method as a general phenomenon for enhance of the DNA repair capacity. This was confirmed also in the case of the aging of V. faba seeds with an effect of the rejuvenation.

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Gustáv Murín (geboren am 9. April 1959 in Bratislava) Beruflicher Werdegang: Ausbildung: Zytologie, Comenius-Universität, Bratislava (1978-1983) Abschluss: B.Sc. (1983), M.Sc. (1984), Ph.D. (1991) Beruf: Botanische Fakultät der Comenius-Universität (von 1988 bis heute, Position: Wissenschaftler) Spezialisierung: Alterung/DNA-Reparatur.