AN ASSESSMENT OF CYTOTOXIC POTENTIALITY OF TAXUS BACCATA BARK EXTRACT ON THE ROOT MERISTEM CELLS OF VICIA FABA L.

The bark of Taxus baccata is used in traditional and modern systems of medicine. The objective of this work is to evaluate the cytotoxic potentialities of aqueous suspension of Taxus baccata bark on Vicia faba root tip meristem cells using a cytogenetic approach. Treatments with various concentrations of bark of Taxus baccata extract to Vicia faba root meristem cells showed mito-inhibition and induced several chromosomal aberrations as chromsomal breakage, scattering, stickiness, bridges, laggards etc. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]