Impact of common cytostatic drugs on pollen fertility in higher plants |
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Authors: | Miroslav Mi?ík Michael Kundi Clemens Pichler Metka Filipic Bernhard Rainer Katarina Mi?íková Armen Nersesyan Siegfried Knasmueller |
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Institution: | 1.Institute for Cancer Research, Department of Internal Medicine I, Comprehensive Cancer Center,Medical University of Vienna,Vienna,Austria;2.Institute of Environmental Health,Medical University of Vienna, Center for Public Health,Vienna,Austria;3.National Institute of Biology,Ljubljana,Slovenia;4.Department of Botany, Faculty of Natural Sciences,Comenius University,Bratislava,Slovakia |
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Abstract: | Cytostatic drugs are among the most toxic chemicals which are produced. Many of them cause damage of the genetic material which may affect the fertility of higher organisms. To study the impact of the widely used anticancer drugs cisplatin (CisPt), etoposide (Et), and 5-fluorouracil (5-FU)] on the reproduction of higher plants, pollen abortion experiments were conducted with species which belong to major plant families, namely with Tradescantia paludosa (Commelinaceae), Arabidopsis thaliana (Brassicaceae), Chelidonium majus (Papaveraceae), and Alisma plantago-aquatica (Alismataceae). All compounds increased the frequencies of abortive grains. The lowest effective doses were in general in a narrow range (i.e., 1 and 10 mg/kg of dry soil). The effects of the individual drugs were similar in T. paludosa, A. plantago-aquatica, and Ch. majus, while A. thaliana was consistently less sensitive. The highest abortion rate was obtained in most experiments with CisPt, followed by 5-FU and Et. Comparisons of the doses which caused effects in the present experiments in the different species with the predicted environment concentrations and with the levels of the cytostatics which were detected in hospital wastewaters show that the realistic environmental concentrations of the drugs are 4–6 orders of magnitude lower. Therefore, it is unlikely that these drugs affect the fertility of higher plants in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. |
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