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Allium Chromosome Aberration Test for Evaluation Effect of Cleaning Municipal Water with Constructed Wetland (CW) in Sveti Tomaž, Slovenia
| Peter Firbas1* and Tomaž Amon2 | |
| 1Private Researcher, SICRIS Id. No.11784, Private Laboratory for Plant Cytogenetics, Ljubljanska c. 74. SI-1230 Domžale, Slovenia | |
| 2Researcher, Gorazdova ul. 3. SI–1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia | |
| Corresponding Author : | Peter Firbas Private Researcher, SICRIS Id. No.11784 Private Laboratory for Plant Cytogenetics Ljubljanska c. 74. SI–1230 Domžale, Slovenia E-mail: peter.firbas@gmail.com |
| Received April 16, 2013; Accepted May 27, 2013; Published May 29, 2013 | |
| Citation: Firbas P, Amon T (2013) Allium Chromosome Aberration Test for Evaluation Effect of Cleaning Municipal Water with Constructed Wetland (CW) in Sveti Tomaž, Slovenia. J Bioremed Biodeg 4:189. doi: 10.4172/2155-6199.1000189 | |
| Copyright: © 2013 Firbas P, et al. This is an open-a ccess article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. | |
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Abstract
We show the effectiveness of the communal waste water cleaning plant of the type "LIMNOWET® Constructed Wetlands (CW)". The tests were done with the Allium metaphase test and show the degree of genotoxicity, by observing the aberrations of the metaphasic chromosomes of the plant Allium cepa L. that are evoked by genotoxic substances in the polluted water. The CW plant reduced the degree of genotoxicity 29.0% to 3.5% (the Fisher’s Exact test: p=9.2e–13<0,00001). Therefore CW is a very effective ecoremediation technique, since it removes up to 96% of waste.
