Plant biomonitors

Wolterbeek, H.Th., Bode, P., 1995. Strategies in sampling and sample handling in the context of large-scaled plant biomonitoring surveys of trace element air pollution. Sci. Total Environ. 176, 33 3. 

Plant Biomonitors Pollution, Dandelions, and Mutation Rates... 

Plant biomonitors ideally would provide us with information on environmental anthropogenic influences that are otherwise difficult to detect. While monitoring... 

In natural conditions, Ceratophyllum demersum and Potamogeton pectinatus L. have been found to be effective adsorbents of Cd(II), Cu(II), and Pb(II). The adsorption percentage of the metals onto plant surfaces followed the pattern Pb(II) > Cu(II) > Cd(II). P. pectinatus biomass adsorbed a higher content of heavy metals than C. demersum. According to the results, both species are of interest in the phytoremediation and biomonitoring studies of polluted waters.122... 

With respect to worker safety and re-entry studies, reference substances are necessary to assay the test substance (and, if applicable, any control substance) and determine its stability and for the analyses of specimens collected in the study. Specimens may include plant material (dislodgeable residues), adsorbent media (inhalation), or clothing/dosimeter materials collected during a worker safety study to assess exposure. If biomonitoring is involved, blood and/or urine specimens may be analyzed against reference substances of known purity. 

Material required Intact leaves and Portable Plant Stress Meter (BioMonitor S.C.I.AB, Sweden). 

Bimer, G Neumatm, H.-G (1988) Biomonitoring of aromatic amines. II Hemoglobin binding of some monocyclic aromatic amines. Arch. Toxicol., 62, 110-115 Bollag, J.-M., Blattmann, P. Laanio, T. (1978) Adsorption and transformation of four substituted anilines in soil. J. Am. Food Chem., 26, 1302-1306 Bull, D.L. (1973) Metabolism of chlordimefon in cotton plants. Environ. EntomoL, 2, 869-871 Chemical Information Services (1999) Directory of World Chemical Producers (Version 99.1.0) [CD-ROM], Dallas, TX... 

Pennsylvania Currently funding biomonitoring and environmental-health tracking efforts, including studies of people living in the vicinity of coal-burning power plants. 

Haugen A, Ovrebo S, Drablos PA. 1992. Biomonitoring of genotoxic exposure of aluminum plant workers. Med Lav 83 506-510. 

Gilli, G. and Meineri, V. (2000) Assessment of the toxicity and genotoxicity of wastewaters treated in a municipal plant, in G. Persoone, C. Janssen and W.M. De Coen (eds), New Microbiotests for Routine Toxicity Screening and Biomonitoring, Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York, pp. 327-338. 

Mertens, J., S. Luyssaert, and K. Verheyen. 2005. Use and abuse of trace metal concentrations in plant tissue for biomonitoring and phytoextraction. Environ. Pollut. 138 1 4. 

The use of lower plants as biomonitors has recently been detailed. Garty (1993) has extensively reviewed the use of lichens as biomonitors the use of fungi has been reviewed by Mejstfik and Lepsova (1993) and by Wondratschek and Rfider (1993) and mosses as biomonitors have been discussed by Steinnes (1993) and by Brtining and Kreeb (1993) the effects of heavy metals on bryophytes has been reviewed by Tyler (1990). 

Kabata-Pendias, A., Piotrowska, M., Dudka, W. S. (1993), in Plants as Biomonitors. Indicators for Heavy Metals in the Terrestrial Environment Markert, B. (ed.) Weinheim VCH pp. 485-494. 

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