“…In the present study, we used wheat plants to investigate the effect of tetracycline on the growth, antioxidative, biochemical, and genetic toxicities, including percentage germination, root length, shoot length, mitotic index, SOD, CAT, and POD activities, MDA content, and chromosome aberration frequency. Wheat is a common green plant and one of the most important crops worldwide and is frequently used as an ecotoxicological indicator (El-Ghamery et al 2003;Wang and Zhou 2006;Li et al 2008). Thus, the aim of this work was (1) to perform a comprehensive investigation on the impact of excess tetracycline on the physiological, biochemical, and genetic responses, and (2) to seek sensitive biomarkers for diagnosing potential adverse effects on ecosystems at physiological, biochemical, and genetic levels under the stressful condition.…”