Atomic Gardening facts
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After WWII plants were bombarded with radiation to produce useful mutations known as Atomic Gardening which resulted in todays peppermint and red grapefruit
how atomic energy is produced?
Atomic gardening means briefly exposing plants to a highly radioactive source, generating widespread DNA mutations and possibly producing a useful mutant variety.
What atomic energy level?
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what's atomic energy?
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More that 2000 crop varieties including Ruby Red grapefruits, and a rice called Calrose 76, which accounts for half of the rice grown in California, are the result of 'Atomic Gardening' in which crops are exposed to highly radioactive Cobalt 60 in order to induce beneficial mutations.
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The Atomic Gardening Society used radiation in the 50's to create useful plant mutations
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About Atomic Gardens, where chronic exposure to gamma rays on plants created mutations that led to novel strains with beneficial properties.
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Beginning in the 1950s, atomic gardens were a part of Atoms for Peace, a program to develop "peaceful" uses of fission energy after WWII. Gamma gardens were established in laboratories in the US, Europe, parts of the former USSR, India and Japan.
