Environmental risk appraisement of disinfection by-products (DBPs) in plant model system: Allium cepa

Mutagenicity, genotoxicity and oxidative stress induced by pesticide industry wastewater using bacterial and plant bioassays

“…Ames Salmonella /microsomal test is extensively applied in examining the mutagenic potential of toxic chemicals [20,21]. A. cepa plant model is also extensively used for the evaluation of genotoxicity due to high sensitivity towards the xenobiotic compounds [22]. Mung bean ( Vigna radiata ) seed is another important short-term assay for genotoxicity evaluation using different parameters such as seed germination, seedling vigour index [7] to reflects the impacts of contaminants on the growth of plant.…”

Integrative analysis in toxicological assessment of the insecticide Malathion in Allium cepa L. system

“…Monitoring of the toxicological/genotoxic effects of chemical substances using biological assays is a useful approach for the identification of danger and risk assessment. Biological assays with the common onion (Allium cepa) are an efficient and sensible system of low cost that has been employed in recent years to assess the cytotoxic and genotoxic potential of several substances (Andrade-Vieira et al, 2017;Küçük and Liman, 2018;Silva Souza et al, 2018;Verma and Srivastava, 2018;Yadav and Chandra, 2018;Bernardes et al, 2019;Kieling et al, 2019;Ranjan et al, 2019;Almeida et al, 2020;Viega et al, 2020). The test results with A. cepa showed a good correlation with the test systems of mammals (Rank and Nielsen, 1994).…”