Novel Plant Bioassays for Monitoring the Genotoxicity of Drinking Water from the Inhabited Areas of the Ukraine Affected by the Chernobyl Accident

A New Use for Transgenic Plants - Environmental Biomonitors

“…This increase was correlated with the soil surface radioactive contamination. In contrast to common radiation measuring systems, which did not detect traces of radioactivity in the water, our biomonitoring systems proved to be reliable and sensitive, and detected even minute levels of radionuclides (Kovalchuk et al, 2003b).…”

Genotoxicity evaluation of drinking water and rates of population morbidity in North Kazakhstan oblast

“…По литературным данным, в большинстве случаев авторы не отмечали корреляции между обнаруженной генотоксичностью воды и результатами ее химического анализа -содержанием тяжелых металлов, радионук-лидов (Прохорова и др., 2001;Kovalchuk et al, 2003;Reifferscheid et al, 2000).…”

Agrobacterium tumefaciensand the Plant: The David and Goliath of Modern Genetics

“…The improvement of transformation protocols is a practical advance, but the really exciting advances will be in the types of modification and the application therein. Current research foci include biodegradable plastics in plants (Mittendorf et al, 1998), vaccination against common human diseases administered by eating the plant (Staub et al, 2000), and plants as indicators of environmental toxins (Kovalchuk et al, 2003).…”