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Genotoxicity and Mutagenicity of Metals in Plants

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Physiology and Biochemistry of Metal Toxicity and Tolerance in Plants

Abstract

Metals are ubiquitous in nature. Metals are emitted from a wide spectrum of natural and man-made sources such as volcanic eruption, mining, fossil burning, industrial emissions and automobile exhausts and sewage disposals. Distribution of metals in the environment, however, is uneven (Moore and Ramamoorthy 1984, Nriagu and Pacyna 1988, Nriagu 1990). Upon entering into the environment in a variety of organic and inorganic forms and being neither degradable nor recoverable, metals get incorporated into biogeochemical cycles where they can exert long-term effect (Nriagu 1990). The problem of metal pollution is a global phenomenon. This, however, is accentuated in third world countries that have been offering the dumping grounds for toxic wastes and have become the hot spots of metal pollution because of population explosion coupled with poor economic conditions, use of outdated technologies in industries and lack of stringent anti-pollution laws (Anonymous 1991).

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