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Main Title

Plant Exposure Laboratory and Chambers. Volume 1.

Author

McFarlane, C. ; Pfleeger, T. ;

CORP Author

Corvallis Environmental Research Lab., OR.

Year Published

1986

Report Number

EPA/600/3-86/007A;

Stock Number

PB86-155777

Additional Subjects

Plants(Botany) ; Organic compounds ; Environmental impacts ; Isotopic labeling ; Carbon 14 ; Food chain ; Industrial wastes ; Agricultural wastes ; Physiology ; Reaction kinetics ; Experimental design ; Test chambers ; Toxic substances

Holdings

Library	Call Number	Additional Info	Location	Last Modified	Checkout Status
NTIS	PB86-155777	Some EPA libraries have a fiche copy filed under the call number shown.		07/26/2022

Collation

35p

Abstract

The research is to learn the factors which control plant uptake, translocation and metabolism of anthropogenic organic chemicals. Understanding these processes is essential to predict food contamination and environmental damage from various agricultural and industrial pollutants. Contamination of plants is only one component, but since plants are the fulcrum upon which all nourishment systems depend, understanding the ways they become contaminated is critical to prudent production, transportation and use of organic chemicals. These efforts to identify the controlling mechanisms of these phenomena require an understanding of the physiological parameters of the plants during uptake and translocation of the extraneous chemicals. Since the chemicals of interest are toxic and studies generally include 14C as a label for monitoring chemical kinetics, containment is an important criterion. The paper describes the laboratory and support system, the exposure chambers, the computer system, and the plant hydroponic nursery built to accomplish this research.

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