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Ecotoxicity of Three Antibiotics to Shoots and Root Elongation of Cucumber, Rape and Chinese Cabbage
  
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KeyWord:chlortetracycline; norfloxacin; sulfametoxydiazine; vegetables; ecological toxicity
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WEI Zi-yan College of Resources and Environment, College of Plant Protection, Pesticide Environmental Toxicology Research Centre, Key Laboratory of Agricultural Environment in Universities of Shandong, Shandong Agricultural University, Taian 271000, China 
WANG Jin-hua College of Resources and Environment, College of Plant Protection, Pesticide Environmental Toxicology Research Centre, Key Laboratory of Agricultural Environment in Universities of Shandong, Shandong Agricultural University, Taian 271000, China
Key Laboratory of Pollttion Processes and Environmental Criteria(Nankai University), Ministry of Education, Naikai University, Tianjin 300071, China 
XIA Xiao-ming College of Resources and Environment, College of Plant Protection, Pesticide Environmental Toxicology Research Centre, Key Laboratory of Agricultural Environment in Universities of Shandong, Shandong Agricultural University, Taian 271000, China 
ZHU Lu-sheng College of Resources and Environment, College of Plant Protection, Pesticide Environmental Toxicology Research Centre, Key Laboratory of Agricultural Environment in Universities of Shandong, Shandong Agricultural University, Taian 271000, China 
WANG Jun College of Resources and Environment, College of Plant Protection, Pesticide Environmental Toxicology Research Centre, Key Laboratory of Agricultural Environment in Universities of Shandong, Shandong Agricultural University, Taian 271000, China 
XIE Hui College of Resources and Environment, College of Plant Protection, Pesticide Environmental Toxicology Research Centre, Key Laboratory of Agricultural Environment in Universities of Shandong, Shandong Agricultural University, Taian 271000, China 
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Abstract:
      In order to evaluate the ecological toxicity of three antibiotics[chlortetracycline(CTC), norfloxacin(NFLX)and sulfametoxydiazine(SMD)], three vegetables, cucumber(No. 4 of New Jinyan), rape(QiRu Green) and Chinese cabbage(Huangyang), were grown in hydroponic condition to observe their shoot and root elongation as well as half-inhibition concentration(IC50) under six different concentrations of CTC and SMD(0, 10, 30, 50, 70, 90 mg·L-1), and NFLX(0, 20, 40, 80, 160, 320 mg·L-1). Results showed that:(1)roots were more sensitive than shoots;(2)ecological toxicity of three antibiotics was CTC>SMD>NFLX for cucumber, SMD>CTC>NFLX for rape, and SMD>NFLX>CTC for Chinese cabbage;(3)tolerance of vegetables to SMD and CTC was cucumber>Chinese cabbage>rape, whereas NFLX had the largest impact on Chinese cabbage, followed by cucumber and rape. These results demonstrate the potential ecological impacts of antibiotics in the environment.