Figure 2.

(A). Germinability, %, of seeds collected from the Babchin (Bab-0), Masany (Masa-0), Vygrebnaya Sloboda (VS-0) plots. (B). Germinability (%, at days 2–6 after seed transfer to the growth chamber. Bab-0 (Background), Masa-0 (Chronic LD) and VS-0 (Chronic LD)—seeds collected from the experimental plots Babchin, Masany, and Vygrebnaya Sloboda, respectively; Bab-0 (Acute HD), Masa-0 (Acute HD) and VS-0 (Acute HD)—seeds collected from the experimental plots and exposed to acute γ-irradiation at a dose of 150 Gy. (C). Germination Rate Index, seed × days⁻¹, of seeds collected from Babchin (plot with background radiation level) and radioactively contaminated plots Masany and Vygrebnaya Sloboda. (D). A. thaliana plants from the experimental plots. The graphs were created using RStudio v1.4 (R-Tools Technology, Richmond Hill, ON, Canada). Data are presented for two independent experiments with four biological replicates in each (20 seeds per replicate for each accession). *—significant differences at p < 0.05 ((A,C)—Kruskal–Wallis test with Dunn’s test using the Holm–Bonferroni correction for multiplicity; (B)—irradiated compared to control, Mann–Whitney U-test).