Vicia root micronucleus assay on the clastogenicity of water samples from the Xiaoqing River in Shandong Province of the People's Republic of China

Mutation Research - Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis

Volumn 426, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 143-145

  Miao, Mingsheng ^a   Fu, Rongshu ^a   Yang, Dekui ^a   Zheng, Liansheng ^a  

^a SHANDONG NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Biomonitoring; Clastogenicity; Effluent; Micronucleus; Plant bioassay; Vicia faba; Water genotoxicity

Indexed keywords

CLASTOGEN; INDUSTRIAL EFFLUENT; RIVER WATER;

BIOASSAY; CHINA; CONFERENCE PAPER; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GENOTOXICITY; MICRONUCLEUS TEST; MUTAGEN TESTING; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEWAGE; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; CHINA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FABACEAE; GEOGRAPHY; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; MICRONUCLEUS TESTS; MUTAGENS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; SEWAGE; URBAN HEALTH; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

VICIA; VICIA FABA;

EID: 0032903036     PISSN: 00275107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0027-5107(99)00057-3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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