Abstract
The plant cell/microbe coincubation assay is based on employing living tobacco cells in suspension culture as the activating system for promutagens and the Ames/Salmonella cells as the genetic indicator system. In contrast to aromatic amines (e.g. 2-aminofluorene and m-phenylenediamine) that were previously reported to be activated to products mutagenic in the S. typhimurium strains TA98 or YG1024 by tobacco cells, promutagenic N-nitrosoamines (N-nitrosodimethylamine, N-nitroso-morpholine, N-nitrosopiperidine, N-nitrosomethyl-2-hydroxypropylamine) were not activated to product(s) mutagenic in S. typhimurium TA 100.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 401-406 |
Number of pages | 6 |
Journal | Biologia Plantarum |
Volume | 35 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Sep 1993 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Plant Science
- Horticulture