Genetic Damage Induced by a Food Coloring Dye (Sunset Yellow) on Meristematic Cells of Brassica campestris L.

Table 3

Reciprocal relationship between MI (%) and total abnormalities (%) along with the increasing doses.

Dye treatments	Total cells observed	^**T Ab. (%)	Mitotic index (MI) (%)
	(mean ± SE)	(mean ± SE)	(mean ± SE)
Control	1715 ± 9.64	00.00^a*	14.60 ± 0.19^a*
1%	1700 ± 5.85	3.57 ± 1.10^a	12.32 ± 0.40^a
3%	1748 ± 8.37	7.28 ± 0.20^b	7.88 ± 0.12^b
5%	1663 ± 12.01	12.80 ± 0.39^c	3.47 ± 0.51^c

 ^*Mean values designated by different lowercase letters differ significantly at the 0.05 level by Tukey test; ^**T Ab. indicate total abnormalities.