Risk assessment of wastewater contaminated with radionuclides using Arabidopsis thaliana L. plants

Abstract

Analysis of genotoxicity with plants assays is of a great importance due to pollution of the wastewater and soil by genotoxicants. The objective of these studies was to determine the approach to risk assessment contaminated with radionuclide different wastewater from 30-km zone of the Chernobyl and Kyiv region using the transgenic lines Arabidopsis thaliana L. We used three effective plant assays to evaluate the genotoxicity of Chernobyl and Kyiv region water reservoirs and soil sites. The high, total mutagenic effect was determined in wastewater taken from the lakes Glyboke and Telbin. Received data allow us to develop the approaches to risk assessment for subjective testing wastewater and contaminated with radionuclide water reservoirs and soil sites. © 2007 Springer.