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Application of Quick and Simple Plant Bioassays to Assess the Genotoxicity of Environmental Pollutants — Detection of Potential Health Hazards of Air, Water and Soil contaminants

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Toxicology in Transition

Part of the book series: Archives of Toxicology ((TOXICOLOGY,volume 17))

Abstract

Pollution has been created by human activities for the fulfillment of the greedy desires of human beings for comfort, convenience and enjoyment ever since the invention of the wheel. However, the intensity and severity of pollution has emerged as a serious and grave problem only in the last few decades. In order to reduce pollution to a tolerable level, and thus avoid the eventual total destruction of the ecosystem and at the same time to minimize human affliction and misery of human suffering, the pollution problem should be faced in realistic terms.

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  1. Laboratory of Environmental Mutagenesis, Department of Biological Sciences, Western Illinois University, Macomb, IL, 61455, USA

    Te-Hsiu Ma

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  1. Institut für Arbeitsphysiologie an der Universität Dortmund, Ardeystr. 67, D-44139, Dortmund, Germany

    Gisela H. Degen

  2. Interkantonale Kontrollstelle für Heilmittel, Erlachstr. 8, CH-3000, Bern 9, Switzerland

    Jürg P. Seiler

  3. Ciba-Geigy Ltd., K-136.3.23, CH-4002, Basel, Switzerland

    Philip Bentley

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Ma, TH. (1995). Application of Quick and Simple Plant Bioassays to Assess the Genotoxicity of Environmental Pollutants — Detection of Potential Health Hazards of Air, Water and Soil contaminants. In: Degen, G.H., Seiler, J.P., Bentley, P. (eds) Toxicology in Transition. Archives of Toxicology, vol 17. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-79451-3_36

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