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Study on Air Pollution Tolerance Index of Selected Plant Species along Roadside at Karwi, (U.P.) India

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  • International Journal of Applied Research and Technology

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  • 2016

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The APTI is very effective and important for selection of plants in order to check their susceptibility against any environmental stress like air pollution. This is a simple and easy method to adopt on different types of field conditions and reduced the use of costly environmental monitoring equipment’s. To develop the usefulness of plants as bio-indicators requires an appropriate selection of plant species which entail an utmost importance for a particular situation. Air pollution tolerance index is used to select plant species tolerant to air pollution. Four physiological and biochemical parameters namely, leaf extract pH, ascorbic acid, total chlorophyll and relative water content were combined together in a formulation signifying the air pollution tolerance index of plants. In this paper APTI of common growing roadside plants have been investigated.
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Fig.1. Air Pollution Tolerance Index of selected plant species
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Chaurasia and Karan, 2016 1(1): 32-38
Received August 11, 2016; Revised September 27, 2016 Published October 29, 2016
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