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JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
Volume 25, Issue 5, Pages 889-894Publisher
SCIENCE PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/S1001-0742(12)60174-0
Keywords
binary mixture; bioluminescence; heavy metal; revertant mutation; seed germination; toxicity
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- Basic Science Research Project through the National Research Foundation of Korea
- Ministry of Education, Science and Technology [2012-0007703]
- National Research Foundation of Korea [2010-0022750] Funding Source: Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI), National Science & Technology Information Service (NTIS)
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This investigation was to assess the joint effects of metal binary mixtures on seed germination, root and shoot growth, bacterial bioluminescence, and gene mutation based on the one toxic unit (1 TU) approach. Different sensitivities and orders of toxicity of metal mixtures were observed among the bioassays. In general, mostly additive or antagonistic effects were observed, while almost no synergistic effects by the binary metal mixtures in all bioassays. Therefore, the combined effects of heavy metals in the different bioassays were difficult to generalize since they were dependent on both chemical type and the organism used in each bioassay. However, these results indicate that a battery of bioassays with mixture chemicals as opposed to just a single assay with single metal is a better strategy for the bioassessment of environmental pollutants.
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