Mutagenicity of drinking water detected by the Tradescantia micronucleus test
- 1 April 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Canadian Science Publishing in Canadian Journal of Genetics and Cytology
- Vol. 27 (2) , 143-150
- https://doi.org/10.1139/g85-022
Abstract
Spring Lake reservoir of Macomb, Illinois, is a typical model of the drinking water supply of some midwestern towns of the USA. Water samples collected periodically in 1980 and 1981 from this lake were tested lake were for mutagenicity using the Tradescantia micronucleus (Trad-MCN) test, a highly sensitive mutagen-detecting bioassay. Water samples from 1981 were also analyzed chemically. The micronucleus (MCN) frequency peaked (12-14 MCN/100 tetrads) in mid-July in both years, as compared with the average frequency (5 MCN/100 tetrads) of the base-line control that was maintained in nutrient solution (prepared with distilled water and pure chemicals). Drinking water from the tap was tested in parallel with lake water, and its mutagenicity tended to fluctuate with the mutagenicity of the lake water.This publication has 15 references indexed in Scilit:
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