Nag, ShilpaJain, A.K.M.S., Dhanya2018-03-092024-08-142018-03-092024-08-142013Nag, S., Jain, A.K. and Dhanya M.S. (2013). Mutagenic effect in vegetables by pesticides. In: Environmental Sustainability: Concepts, Principles, Evidences and Innovations. pp.338-343.978-93-83083-75-6http://10.2.3.109/handle/32116/651The advent of pesticides in vegetable crops is to control insects, pathogens and weeds aimed at increasing the crop yield, but the applied pesticides are not fully reaching the target pests. It escapes to environment or accumulates in crops resulting in some deleterious changes. The disturbances were observed in physiological and cytological levels of the affected plants by blocking mitosis and producing mitotic and meiotic chromosome abnormalities. Some pesticides like acetamiprid, carbendazim, chlorpyriphos, cypermethrin, dichlorvos, dicofol, dimethoate, fenvalarate, indoxcarb, mancozeb, monocrotophos, profenophos, quinalphos, zineb etc. proved to be mutagens. Researchers reported abnormalities like chromosomes with inactivated centromeres, isochromosome, picnosis, vagrant, stickiness, bridges, precocious separation and lagging chromosomes, reduction in mitotic index, micronuclei, multipolar cells, sister chromatid exchanges, c- mitosis are common in vegetables. Such abnormalities were observed in kharif vegetables like Lycopersicon esculentum, Capsicum annum, Solanum melongena, Abelmoschus esculentus, Cucumis sativus, Vicia faba, Phaseolus vulgaris and rabi vegetables like Allium cepa, Coriandrum sativum, Raphanus sativus, Solanum tuberosum, Pisum sativum etc. The pesticides act as potent environmental mutagens that possess a threat to cause alterations in genetic makeup in vegetables.en-USPesticidesvegetablesmutagenchromosomal aberrationsBook chapter