Tradescantia Bioassays as Monitoring Systems for Environmental Mutagenesis: A Review

Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 325-359

  Rodrigues, Geraldo Stachetti ^a   Ma, Te Hsiu ^b   Pimentel, David ^c   Weinstein, Leonard H ^c,d  

^a EMBRAPA CERRADOS   (Brazil)

^b WESTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^d United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service and Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioindicator; Environmental mutagenesis; Genotoxicity; Micronuclei; Stamen hair mutation; Tradescantia

Indexed keywords

TRADESCANTIA;

EID: 0000767294     PISSN: 07352689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07352689709701953     Document Type: Article

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