Investigation on rice embryos and seeds after the LDEF flight: electronic spin resonance identification.

Rice caryopsis of Cigalon variety with short grain of the LDEF mission can develop and grow as well as those of the laboratory control. Rice caryopsis of Delta variety with long grain did not develop while a small number of excised embryos can develop and grow as well as the control group. A preliminary study of the Electron Spin Resonance (ESR) spectra of Rice embryos and seeds recorded several month after the flight on flight samples and on control ones has been carried out.

Influence of a long duration exposure, 69 months, to the space flight factors in Artemia cysts, tobacco and rice seeds.

Three french laboratories have participated in the Free Flyer Biostack experiment. Artemia cysts, tobacco seeds and rice caryopsis and embryos were used. Biological objects in monolayers were dead.

Effects of long duration space flight on rice seed (or embryo) radiation sensitivity and element microlocalizations.

In long duration space experiments Rice caryopses and embryos, which are able to remain alive 10 years (or more) and tolerate extreme physical conditions (temperature, few water content) during irradiation and post-irradiation storage, were used (8, 40, 201 and 457 days on board of Salyut 7, 2107 days on LDEF). In certain experiments (Salyut 7), samples were irradiated either before or after the flight. Effects of the flight and radiosensitivity were observed in Rice seedlings cultivated in in vitro conditions.

Biological changes observed on rice and biological and genetic changes observed on tobacco [correction of tabacco] after space flight in the orbital station Salyut-7 (Biobloc III experiment).

Caryopses and isolated embryos from Rice (Oryza sativa L.) and Tobacco seeds (Nicotiana tabacum L. variety Xanthi) were studied in the Biobloc III container aboard the Soviet orbital space station SALYUT 7.

Radiorestoration by 3 cytokinins contained in yeast RNAs and extracts, of scorzonera tumor tissues exposed to cobalt-60 gamma rays.

The 3 natural cytokinins contained both in the extracts and RNA of yeast and the tumor tissues cultivated in vitro, elicit radiorestorative properties from the crown-gall tissues of Scorsonera submitted to Co60 gamma-rays. However the cytokinins produce no stimulating effect whatsoever on the non irradiated tissues that are nontheless highly stimulated by yeast extract and their RNA.