Development of a test-tube stress-ethylene bioassay for detecting phytotoxic gases

Craker, L. E.; Fillatti, J. J.

Development of a test-tube stress-ethylene bioassay for detecting phytotoxic gases | Development of a test-tube stress-ethylene bioassay for detecting phytotoxic gases

1982

Craker, L. E. | Fillatti, J. J.

A rapid, quantitative bioassay for detecting phytotoxic air pollutants has been developed. The technique uses wheat Triticum aestivum L. or tomato Lycopersicon esculentum L., seedlings growing on an agar medium in test-tubes. The seedlings are exposed to a pollutant in the test-tube and stress-ethylene induced by the pollutant is quantitatively measured by gas chromatography. Increases in ethylene production from seedlings exposed to a phytotoxic air pollutant as compared with controls not exposed to pollutants were related to the pollutant concentration.

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