[en] After dry barley seeds were irradiated with γ-rays and soaked for various times, the squashed preparations were made of the first leaf meristems and incubated with E.coli DNA polymerase I with appropriate substrates. The incorporation of nucleotides with DNA polymerase occurred in the cells fixed at late G₁ after 15 kR and at middle and late G₁ after 30 kR, respectively. There was an interrelation between the incorporation of nucleotides by DNA polymerase and the chromatin diffusion throughout a nucleus. The observations were interpreted in terms of the accessibility of 3'-0H groups of DNA breaks which accompanies the change of the conformation of chromatin fibres. (author)