ATLA::Alternatives to Laboratory Animals

Volume 29, Number 3

Biochemical responses in aquatic plants as markers of environmental contamination.

ATLA 29, 269-275, May/June 2001

Pirjo Lindström-Seppä,1 Katalin Urban,1,2,3 Ulla Honkalampi-Hämäläinen1 and Sashwati Roy1,4

1Department of Physiology and 2Department of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, University of Kuopio, PO. Box 1627, 70211 Kuopio, Finland; 3Budapest Power Plant Ltd, Budapest, Hungary; 4Center for Minimally Invasive Surgery (CMIS), Laboratory of Molecular Medicine, Heart & Lung Institute, The Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, OH, USA

SUMMARY

This short review gives several examples of the current status of xenobiotic biotransformation reactions and oxidative stress responses in plants as biomarkers of organic pollution in aquatic environments. Based on previous basic knowledge, several biomonitoring programmes have been successfully applied during the last decade.

Keywords: biomarket; transformations, oxidative stress, plant