MICROSPORE ANALYSIS FOR GENOTOXICITY OF A POLLUTED ENVIRONMENT

Authors
MICIETA K MURIN G
Citation
K. Micieta et G. Murin, MICROSPORE ANALYSIS FOR GENOTOXICITY OF A POLLUTED ENVIRONMENT, Environmental and experimental botany, 36(1), 1996, pp. 21-27
Citations number
36
Categorie Soggetti
Environmental Sciences","Plant Sciences
Journal title
Environmental and experimental botany → ACNP
ISSN journal
00988472
Volume
36
Issue
1
Year of publication
1996
Pages
21 - 27
Database
ISI
SICI code
0098-8472(1996)36:1<21:MAFGOA>2.0.ZU;2-9
Abstract
The advantage of field grown plants as bioindicators of a polluted env ironment is demonstrated through analyses of microspores. Forty-one sp ecies of the native Slovakian flora were used to test the hypothesis t hat local flora can serve as bioindicators of genotoxicity of industri ally polluted areas. A higher frequency of aberrant microspores from p lants in the polluted areas supported the hypothesis.