Assessing single and joint toxicity of three phenylurea herbicides using Lemna minor and Vibrio fischeri bioassays

Chemosphere

Volumn 119, Issue , 2015, Pages S69-S74

  Gatidou, Georgia ^a   Stasinakis, Athanasios S ^a   Iatrou, Evangelia I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

Author keywords

Additivity; Combined toxicity; Effects; Risk assessment; Water

Indexed keywords

ADDITIVES; BACTERIA; BINARY MIXTURES; METABOLISM; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOXICITY; UREA; WATER; WEED CONTROL;

ADDITIVITY; ANTAGONISTIC EFFECTS; COMBINED TOXICITY; EFFECTS; ENVIRONMENTAL CONCENTRATION; LUMINESCENT BACTERIA; PHENYLUREA HERBICIDES; PHOTOSYNTHETIC ORGANISMS;

HERBICIDES;

DIURON; LINURON; MONOLINURON; HERBICIDE; WATER POLLUTANT;

ACUTE TOXICITY; ALIIVIBRIO FISCHERI; ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; EC50; ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FROND; LEMNA MINOR; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYTOTOXICITY; TOXICITY TESTING; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; ARACEAE; DRUG EFFECTS; LUMINESCENCE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOXICITY; WATER POLLUTANT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LEMNA; LEMNA MINOR; VIBRIO FISCHERI;

ALIIVIBRIO FISCHERI; ARACEAE; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; DIURON; HERBICIDES; LINURON; LUMINESCENCE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84922755590     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: 18791298     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2014.04.030     Document Type: Article

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