Genotoxicity evaluation of the insecticide endosulfan in the wetland macrophyte Bidens laevis L.

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 153, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 695-698

  Pérez, Débora J ^a,b   Menone, Mirta L ^a,b   Camadro, Elsa L ^a,b   Moreno, Víctor J ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE MAR DEL PLATA   (Argentina)

^b Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Chromosome aberrations; Endosulfan; Micronuclei; Wetland macrophyte

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); INSECTICIDES; PLANTS (BOTANY);

CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; ENDOSULFAN; WETLAND MACROPHYTE;

GENETIC ENGINEERING;

ENDOSULFAN;

CHROMOSOME; CONCEALMENT BEHAVIOR; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP; ENDOSULFAN; GENOTOXICITY; HERB; INSECTICIDE; MACROPHYTE; POLLUTION MONITORING; ROOT; WETLAND;

ANAPHASE; ARTICLE; BIDENS; BIDENS LAEVIS; BIOASSAY; CELL MIGRATION; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GENOTOXICITY; HIGHER PLANT; MACROPHYTE; MICRONUCLEUS; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; PLANT ROOT; POLLUTION; SEED; TELOPHASE; WETLAND;

ARGENTINA; BIDENS; DNA DAMAGE; ENDOSULFAN; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; GENES, PLANT; INSECTICIDES; MICRONUCLEUS TESTS; MUTAGENICITY TESTS; WETLANDS;

BIDENS LAEVIS;

EID: 43549104471     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2007.09.014     Document Type: Article

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