Phytotoxicity Assay of Crude Oil Using Different Accessions of Sorghum bicolor

The toxicity of crude oil on ten accessions of Sorghum bicolor Moench was evaluated in this study. The study used germination, shoot length, root length, chromosomal abnormalities, mitotic indices and EC50 as bioassay parameters in the evaluation with 0% to 8% of crude oil as treatments. The percent...

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Main Authors: K.L. Njoku, M.O. Akinola, O.R. Oshodin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Babol Noshirvani University of Technology 2011-01-01
Series:Iranica Journal of Energy and Environment
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Online Access:http://www.ijee.net/Journal/IJEE/Vol2/No3/7.pdf