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BULLETIN OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINATION AND TOXICOLOGY
Volume 108, Issue 3, Pages 423-429Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00128-021-03291-8
Keywords
Arsenic toxicity; Allium cepa; Chromosomal aberrations; Mitotic depression; Mitotic index; Pteris vittata
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- University Grant Commission (UGC), New Delhi, India
- SERB, DST, New Delhi, India
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The study evaluated the use of Allium cepa based cyto-genotoxicity bioassays in assessing arsenic toxicity and remediation potential of Pteris vittata in contaminated soil. Results showed that P. vittata extracted high concentrations of arsenic from different soils and had lower cyto-genotoxic effects compared to untreated soil. This study provides a simple and economic tool for evaluating the toxicity of contaminated soils and highlights the phytoremediation property of P. vittata against arsenic toxicity.
The present study assessed the utility of Allium cepa based cyto-genotoxicity bioassays in evaluating the arsenic toxicity and remediation potential of Pteris vittata on contaminated soil of Lakhimpur-Kheri district. Untreated and P. vittata treated soil extracts were used for cyto-genotoxicity tests in A. cepa. Results showed that P. vittata extracted high concentration of arsenic, which ranged from 220 to 1420 mgkg(-1) in different soils. Cyto-genotoxic assessment of A. cepa showed that extract of P. vittata treated soil had lower cyto-genotoxic effects as compared to untreated soil. A higher mitotic index (10%) while lower mitotic depression (29%), relative abnormality rate (10%), chromosomal aberrations (1%) and micronuclei (2%) were detected in root meristematic cells of A. cepa exposed to remediated soil extract in comparison to untreated soil. The studies provide a simple, rapid and economic cyto-genotoxicity bioassay tool for evaluating toxicity of contaminated soils of contaminated soils as well as revealed the phytoremdiation property of P. vittata against arsenic toxicity.
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