Abstract: The genomic DNAs in plants are quite stable in normal circumstances, but easily to be damaged under adverse circumstance stresses such as chemical mutagens, ultraviolet ray, ionizing radiation, and fungal and bacteria toxins, as well as the reactive oxygen free radicals generated in plant metabolic processes. The main DNA lesions are the altered bases, apurinic/apyrimidinic (AP) sites, mismatch base, deletion or insertion, linked pyrimidines, DNA adducts, DNA strand breaks, methylated damage, and intra and interstrand crosslinks. These DNA lesions could be genotoxic or cytotoxic to plant cells, while the repair of the DNA lesions is the basis of the plant antagonism to all kinds of damage. This paper summarized the research progress on the DNA damage (methylated damage, and DNA adducts) and DNA mismatch repair (procaryotic organism MMR, botanic MMR, and microsatellite instability) of plants. It was considered that in the bioremediation of environmental contaminants and in the early diagnosis and assessment of environmental pollution, plant DNA mismatch repair genes and MMR mutants would have higher application prospective.

Key words: glycogen, lipid, protein, energy metabolism, burst swimming speed, critical swimming speed.