Cytogenetic evaluation of the effects of monocrotophos insecticide using the allium assay

• Main Author: Malonzo, Alexander C.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 1994
• Subjects: Plant cytogenetics; Insecticides > Toxicology; Plants; Effect of insecticides on; Onions; xx1 Cytogenetics; x4 Allium cepa; Biology
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_masteral/1639
• Institution: De La Salle University

This study evaluates the morphological and cytogenetic effects of monocrotophos insecticide on Allium cepa L.Onion bulbs were grown in three dilute concentration levels of the test insecticide, 0.5, 1.0, and 1.5 percent. One group of the red creol onion variety was exposed for six hours and another...