Essential oils have been evaluated as appropriate phytotoxins with mechanisms of action
that are different from those of synthetic herbicides applied in weed management activities …

Abstract Roylea cinerea (D. Don) Baillon an indigenous medicinal plant of Lamiaceae family
used for the treatment of several diseases. In the present study, its aqueous (leaves) extract …

Mercury (Hg) is a persistent and dangerous heavy metal with genotoxic properties.
Echinacea purpurea L. is a well-known therapeutic plant with anti-inflammatory, antioxidant …

The discharge of dye loaded effluents from textile and food industries into natural water has
skyrocketed in the last few years due to booming industrialization that stands to serve a …

Excessive doses of toxic metals such as cobalt may cause detrimental hazards to exposed
organisms. Six groups of onion bulbs were formed to investigate the therapeutic effects of …

Allium cepa assay is performed to evaluate the cytotoxicity of anti-cancerous drugs namely,
Doxorubicin and Erlotinib. The doses administered are much lower than the pharmaceutical …

The present study was designed to evaluate the genotoxicity of sodium arsenite by
employing the Vicia faba root chromosomal aberration assay. The seedlings were treated …

Abstract Allium cepa (2n= 16) assay is conducted to ascertain cytotoxicity of two most used
hazardous chemotherapeutic drugs namely, cyclophosphamide (CP) and 5-fluorouracil (5 …

The latest issue of Cytologia (Vol. 85, Issue 2) includes a regular paper on the long-awaited
karyotype analysis of the primitive red alga, Cyanidioschyzon merolae 10D, by Kuroiwa et …

Genomic DNA is constantly exposed to various types of exogenous and endogenous
stimulants that induce DNA lesions, including single-strand breaks (SSBs) and double …