ASTM STP 1115 Plants for Toxicity Assessment: Second Volume
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Gorsuch, JW
This publication contains papers presented at the 2nd Symposium on Use of Plants for Toxicity Assessment. The symposium was sponsored by Committee E-47 on Biological Effects and Environmental Fate and Subcommittee E-47.11 on Plant Toxicity in April, 1990.
The 35 papers in this collection are organized under the headings
- Regulatory Perspectives
- Applications of Plant Bioassays/Photosynthesis
- Xenobiotic Uptake by Plants
- General Phytotoxicology
- Biochemical and Genetic Applications
- New Approaches
Specific topics addressed by the papers in this publication include:
- FDA review
- terrestrial exposures
- soil-based plant tests
- OECD guidelines
- experimental design
- effluent toxicity assessment
- test species recommendations
- sub-lethal stress
- chemostat grown green alga
- food-chain effects
- natural periphyton communities
- seedling chlorophyll fluorescence
- ambient cadmium toxicity
- freshwater soils
- dredged materials
- bioconcentration
- terrestrial plant bioassays
- toluene
- biotransformation of xenobiotics
- lichens
- activation of promutagens
- microbe coincubation assay
- aneuploidy-inducing agents
- hazardous waste sites
- marsh plants
- short-term bioassay
- plant life-cycle bioassay
- rapid cycling Brassica
- industrial effluents
- cynophage host assay
- sludge
- composts