Article
Cytogenetic study for possible mutagenic activity induced by ice-nucleation bacteria or their metabolic products in human lymphocytes in vitro.
Mutation research - 1 Oct 1990
Lialiaris T, Mourelatos D, Stergiadou H C, Constantinidou H A
Abstract excerpt
A means for eliminating ice-nucleation-active (INA) bacteria, the microorganisms responsible for frost damage to plants at mild freezing temperatures, is the use as competitors of other naturally occurring, non-nucleating strains. Inactive mutants (INA-) of INA bacteria have been produced by genetic or chemical methods and proposed for biological control of INA populations. Since, however, the application of...
Topics
- Cell Division
- Cells, Cultured
- Chromosome Aberrations
- Humans
- Ice
- Kinetics
- Lymphocytes
- Mutagenicity Tests
- Mutation
- Pseudomonas
- Sister Chromatid Exchange
