Authors : Rajendra N Deshmukh, Punita Tiwari , and Piyushkumar Sharma
Page Nos : 312-315
Description :
mitochondrial respiration and stomatal structure of plants. This study is carried out in Congress Nagar area of Nagpur city. Construction work particularly construction of metro bridges in different parts of Nagpur city, may lead to increase in the amount of cement dust in environment. These act as the sources of dust and other particles in and around the living place. To know about the extent of dust pollution, a common plant Brassica campestris was found to be one of the plants which are higher in number. The chlorophyll a, Chlorophyll b, total chlorophyll, and carotenoid content of the leaves have found to decrease in the leaves of the plant grown in areas exposed to dust when compared with unpolluted plants. Similarly the other components such as calcium, sodium, manganese magnesium, zinc got increased in the affected plant Brassica campestris. Certain parameters such as alkaloids and flavonoids, have got decreased in its quantity in case of affected plant Brassica campestris. It is clear that the cement dust particles affect certain biochemical properties of plants.
