Environmental Mutagenesis and Epidemics

About The Book : The present book is a modification of our earlier work in 2020 on “Chemicals, Mutations and Gene-Epidemics” which embodied a part of our work until 1990.Mutations in Corona made our work, relevant once again despite the continuous domination of people who prevented my work in 1991, and fool all people all times.Mutations in Corona made our work, relevant once again despite the continuous domination of people who prevented my work in 1991, and fool all people all times. About The Author : C.B.S.R. Sharma, hailing from the terminal part of Godavari, he studied and worked at BITS, Pilani, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and the Universities of Berhampur, Madurai, Coimbatore and Pondicherry and REGRETS to be still alive in this wicked world.P C Anil, hailing from coastal Mahe, he studied at Pondicherry University and worked at Kerala Forest Research Institute and moved to USA. He worked in in situ Mutagenesis, and Forest Soils. Of recent he became a consultant stationed in Florida on Carbon Foot Prints, Credits and Markets. CONTENTS Acknowledgments ..........................................................9 Definitions and Common Senses ....................................11 Preface ........................................................................13 Environment and Chemicals 1. Introduction ..............................................................21 2. Historical Perspectives..............................................27 3. Chemicals Affect Plant Cells ....................................47 Environmental Mutagenesis 4. Environmental Mutagenesis-The beginnings ...............85 5. Chemicals Worse than Radiations .............................91 6. Environmental Mutagenesis-A summary ....................99 Pesticides 7. Genetic Toxicity of Pesticides .................................117 8. Agro Ecosystem Instability .....................................149 9. Gene-Epidemics from Pesticides .............................155 Pollution 10. Induced Aneugenesis in Plants ...............................169 11. Mutagenesis in Natural Ecosystems ........................195 12. Ecosystem Mutagens...............................................217 The Future 13. Environmental Mutagenesis in India ..........................221 14. Genepidemics & Genepandemics in the Ecosystems and Human Societies ...................................233 15. Final Reckoning.........................................................241 Appendices .....................................................................295 Index ...............................................................................351