Author/Editor     Firbas, Peter; Amon, Tomaž
Title     Allium chromosome aberration test for evaluation effect of cleaning municipal water with constructed wetland (CW) in Sveti Tomaž, Slovenia
Type     članek
Vol. and No.     Letnik 4, št. 4
Publication year     2013
Language     eng
Abstract     We show the effectiveness of the communal waste water cleaning plant of the type LIMNOWET Constructed Wetlands (CW). The tests were done with the Allium metaphase test and show the degree of genotoxicity, by observing the aberrations of the metaphasic chromosomes of the plant Allium cepa L. that are evoked by genotoxic substances in the polluted water. The CW plant reduced the degree of genotoxicity 29.0% to 3.5% (the Fishers Exact test: p=9.2e13<0,00001). Therefore CW is a very effective ecoremediation technique, since it removes up to 96% of waste.
Keywords     constructed wetland Limnowet
allium metaphase test
chromosome damage
rastlinska čistilna naprava Limnowet
metafazni Allium test
poškodba kromosoma