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Adaptive response of wild and mutant type Synechococcus cedrorum to a polychlorinated pesticide-endosulfan.
Biomedical and environmental sciences : BES - 1 Sept 1993
Bisen P S, Mathur S
Abstract excerpt
The effect of endosulfan, a hexachlorinated pesticide, on growth, inorganic nitrogenous nutrient uptake (NO3-, NO2- and NH4+), change in pigmentation and glycogen content on wild type and chemically mutagenised cells of Synechococcus cedrorum was investigated. The pattern of response to pesticide stress in wild and mutant type was the same. Growth reappeared in both after a period of initial lag in presence of...
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