ASTM STP 1091 Plants for Toxicity Assessment
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This publication contains papers from the First Symposium on Use of Plants for Toxicity Assessment. ASTM Committee E-47 on Biological Effects and Environmental Fate and its Subcommittee E47.11 on Plant Toxicity sponsored the symposium in April, 1989.
The topic headings used to organize the papers in this STP are
- Regulatory Perspectives
- Comparative Toxicology
- Plants and Xenobiotic Uptake
- Plants and Air Pollution
- General Phytotoxicology
- New Approaches
Specific topics covered by the papers in this collection include:
- risk assessment
- guidelines for testing pesticide toxicity
- algae versus vascular plants
- chemical effects on germination
- early growth of terrestrial plants
- seagrass
- multispecies methods of testing
- isolated root uptake test (IRUT)
- whole plant uptake test (WPUT)
- bioaccumulation of mercury compounds
- pollution damage
- native plants
- cultivated plants
- phosphorous smoke producing compounds
- bioindicators for air quality
- root elongation toxicity tests
- hazardous waste site
- soil contamination evaluation
- chromium
- millet root elongation
- heavy metals
- mathematical modeling