Journal of Environmental and Public Health
Volume 2015 (2015), Article ID 319727, 5 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/319727
Research Article
Genetic Damage Induced by a Food Coloring Dye (Sunset Yellow) on Meristematic Cells of Brassica campestris L.
Plant Genetics Laboratory, Department of Botany, University of Allahabad, Allahabad 211002, India
Received 23 December 2014; Revised 24 February 2015; Accepted 16 March 2015
Academic Editor: Brian Buckley
Copyright © 2015 Kshama Dwivedi and Girjesh Kumar. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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