[PDF] Plants For Toxicity Assessment eBook

Author : Wun-cheng Wang
Publisher : ASTM International
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 27,20 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Biological monitoring
ISBN : 0803113978

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The First Symposium on Use of Plants for Toxicity Assessment was held in Atlanta, Georgia, on April 19-20, 1989. This publication contains 29 refereed papers divided into six groups: Regulatory Perspectives, Comparative Toxicology, Plants and Xenobiotic Uptake, Plants and Air Pollution, General Phytotoxicology, and New Approaches. The 2nd Symposium on Use of Plants for Toxicity Assessment was held in San Francisco, California, on April 23-24, 1990. This publication contains 35 refereed papers divided into six groups: Regulatory Perspectives, Applications of Plant Bioassays/Photosynthesis, Xenobiotic Uptake by Plants, General Phytotoxicology, Biochemical and Genetic Applications, and New Approaches.

Author : Wun-cheng Wang
Publisher : ASTM International
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 29,89 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Biological monitoring
ISBN : 0803114222

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The First Symposium on Use of Plants for Toxicity Assessment was held in Atlanta, Georgia, on April 19-20, 1989. This publication contains 29 refereed papers divided into six groups: Regulatory Perspectives, Comparative Toxicology, Plants and Xenobiotic Uptake, Plants and Air Pollution, General Phytotoxicology, and New Approaches. The 2nd Symposium on Use of Plants for Toxicity Assessment was held in San Francisco, California, on April 23-24, 1990. This publication contains 35 refereed papers divided into six groups: Regulatory Perspectives, Applications of Plant Bioassays/Photosynthesis, Xenobiotic Uptake by Plants, General Phytotoxicology, Biochemical and Genetic Applications, and New Approaches.

Author : Spoerke
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,24 MB
Release : 1990-07-03
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780849366550

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This comprehensive volume discusses the various classes of toxic substances found in plants, and includes a series of monographs on specific species. Filled with figures and illustrations, this important reference presents information on clinical effects, the various common and botanic names, specific or class of toxin, case reports, mechanism of action, and risk assessment. The easy-to-read text provides a glossary of terms along with photographs of selected species. Everyone who comes into contact with plants will want this one-of-a-kind monograph at their fingertips. This resourceful book informs the non-botanist as well as health care practitioners, gardeners, poison center specialists, and nurserymen of the possible risks involving exposures to specific indoor plants.

Author : Lorraine Maltby
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 13,12 MB
Release : 2009-11-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 1439822131

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Given the essential role that primary producers play in aquatic ecosystems, it is imperative that the potential risk of pesticides to the structure and functioning of aquatic plants is adequately assessed. An integration of regulatory and research information from key specialists in the area of environmental regulation, Aquatic Macrophyte Risk Asse

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 11,83 MB
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 030904894X

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The public depends on competent risk assessment from the federal government and the scientific community to grapple with the threat of pollution. When risk reports turn out to be overblownâ€"or when risks are overlookedâ€"public skepticism abounds. This comprehensive and readable book explores how the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) can improve its risk assessment practices, with a focus on implementation of the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments. With a wealth of detailed information, pertinent examples, and revealing analysis, the volume explores the "default option" and other basic concepts. It offers two views of EPA operations: The first examines how EPA currently assesses exposure to hazardous air pollutants, evaluates the toxicity of a substance, and characterizes the risk to the public. The second, more holistic, view explores how EPA can improve in several critical areas of risk assessment by focusing on cross-cutting themes and incorporating more scientific judgment. This comprehensive volume will be important to the EPA and other agencies, risk managers, environmental advocates, scientists, faculty, students, and concerned individuals.

Author : W. Wang
Publisher :
Page : 9 pages
File Size : 20,47 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Biological monitoring
ISBN :

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The objective of this study was to evaluate effluent toxicity using phytotoxicity tests. Samples including receiving water, treated effluent, and pretreated industrial wastewaters were collected from three Illinoisian sanitary districts. These samples were tested as is, using duckweed, lettuce, and rice. The treated effluents from the three sources were not toxic in all tests. A pretreated industrial sample from a metal processing plant showed 98% inhibitory effect on duckweed. The same sample was not toxic to lettuce and rice germination. A sample from a transportation industry was toxic using duckweed, lettuce, and rice tests, having inhibitory effects of 45, 13, and 39%, in that order. A sample from a dairy plant was extremely toxic. The sample as received caused inhibitory effects of 100, 87, and 100%, in the same order of three species. The IC50 value and 95% confidence limit for this sample was 50% and 47 to 53% effluent concentration, respectively, using the duckweed toxicity test method.

Author : Wuncheng (Woodrow) Wang
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 26,97 MB
Release : 2020-02-10
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1420048716

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One of the problems of using plants in environmental studies is finding current information. Because plants play a key role in environmental studies, from the greenhouse effect to environmental toxicological studies, information is widely scattered over many different fields and in many different sources. Plants for Environmental Studies solves that problem with a single, comprehensive source of information on the many ways plants are used in environmental studies. Written by experts from around the world and edited by a team of prominent environmental specialists, this book is the only source of complete information on environmental impacts, mutation, statistical analyses, relationships between plants and water, algae, plants in ecological risk assessment, compound accumulations, and more. Encompassing algae and vascular plants in both aquatic and terrestrial environments, this book contains a diverse collection of laboratory and in situ studies, methods, and procedures using plants to evaluate air, water, wastewater, sediment, and soil.