GENOTOXICITY TESTING OF THE HERBICIDE ROUNDUP AND ITS ACTIVE INGREDIENT GLYPHOSATE ISOPROPYLAMINE USING THE MOUSE BONE-MARROW MICRONUCLEUS TEST, SALMONELLA MUTAGENICITY TEST, AND ALLIUM ANAPHASE-TELOPHASE TEST

被引:68
作者
RANK, J
JENSEN, AG
SKOV, B
PEDERSEN, LH
JENSEN, K
机构
[1] Department of Environment, Technology and Social Studies, Roskilde University, Roskilde
来源
MUTATION RESEARCH | 1993年 / 300卷 / 01期
关键词
ROUNDUP; GLYPHOSATE ISOPROPYLAMINE; GENOTOXICITY; MICRONUCLEUS; ALLIUM; SALMONELLA;
D O I
10.1016/0165-1218(93)90136-2
中图分类号
Q3 [遗传学];
学科分类号
071007 ; 090102 ;
摘要
The genotoxic potential of the herbicide Roundup and its active agent, glyphosate isopropylamine salt, was studied in three different assays. No clastogenic effects were found in the mouse bone marrow micronuleus test for either of the two agents. In the Salmonella assay only Roundup was tested. It showed a weak mutagenic effect for the concentrations 360 mug/plate in TA98 (without S9) and 720 mug/plate in TA100 (with S9). These concentrations are close to the toxic level. The anaphase-telophase Allium test showed no effect for the glyphosate isopropylamine salt, but a significant increase in chromosome aberrations appeared after treatment with Roundup at concentrations of 1.44 and 2.88 mg/l when calculated as glyphosate isopropylamine. The most frequent aberrations observed could be characterized as disturbances of the spindle.
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