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- Title
Cytotoxic effects of distillary waste on Allium cepa L.
- Authors
Mishra, Kumkum
- Abstract
The article focuses on the study which monitors the cytotoxic effects of distillary waste from a sugarcane factory in Kanpur, India on Allium cepa L. The physico-chemical properties of the effluent were determined while the experimental and control root tips were squashed based conventional haematoxylin method for chromosomal analysis. It shows that microscopical damage effects such as displacement in number of normal stages of mitosis occur at 1.5% and 2.0% concentration.
- Subjects
KANPUR (India); INDIA; INDUSTRIAL wastes; TOXICITY testing; SEWAGE analysis; ONION composition; MITOSIS; PLANTS
- Publication
Bulletin of Environmental Contamination & Toxicology, 1993, Vol 50, Issue 2, p199
- ISSN
0007-4861
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/BF00191722