Assessment of the cytogenetic damage induced by chromium short-term exposure in root tip meristems of barley seedlings

Water, Air, and Soil Pollution

Volumn 225, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Truta, Elena ^a   Mihai, Cosmin ^b   Gherghel, Daniela ^a   Vochita, Gabriela ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Romania)

^b ALEXANDRU IOAN CUZA UNIVERSITY OF IASI   (Romania)

Author keywords

Aneugenic effects; Chromosome aberrations; Clastogenic action; Genotoxicity; Heavy metals

Indexed keywords

CHROMIUM COMPOUNDS; CHROMOSOMES; DAMAGE DETECTION; HEAVY METALS;

ANEUGENIC EFFECTS; BARLEY (HORDEUM VULGARE L.); CHROMOSOMAL ABERRATION; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CLASTOGENIC ACTION; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTIONS; GENOTOXICITIES; SHORT-TERM EXPOSURE;

CHROMIUM;

CHROMIUM;

BARLEY; CHROMIUM; CHROMOSOME; GENOTOXICITY; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; ROOT;

ANAPHASE; ARTICLE; BARLEY; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPOSURE; GENOTOXICITY; INTERPHASE; MERISTEM; METAPHASE; MITOSIS INDEX; NONHUMAN; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT ROOT; PLANTLET; PROPHASE; SEEDLING; TELOPHASE;

ANIMALIA; HORDEUM; HORDEUM VULGARE SUBSP. VULGARE;

EID: 84896553090     PISSN: 00496979     EISSN: 15732932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11270-014-1933-x     Document Type: Article

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