Ecosystem health and human well being: The mission of the international programme on plant bioassays

Mutation Research - Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis

Volumn 426, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 99-102

  Gopalan, H N B ^a  

^a U Nations Environ Prog PO B   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Ecosystem health; Genotoxicity; International Programme on Plant Bioassay; Plant bioassays; Tradescantia

Indexed keywords

CARCINOGEN; ENVIRONMENTAL MUTAGEN; PESTICIDE;

BIOASSAY; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GENOTOXICITY; MUTAGENICITY; PLANT; POLLUTANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; CHINA; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HEALTH; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MUTAGENICITY TESTS; PLANTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; WORLD HEALTH;

ALLIUM; TRADESCANTIA; VICIA;

EID: 0032959369     PISSN: 00275107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0027-5107(99)00048-2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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