Environmental Stress

Indication, Mitigation and Eco-Conservation

By: Mohammad Yunus (Editor), Nandita Singh (Editor), L.J. de Kok (Editor)

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Hardcover | 31 July 2000

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In the present scenario, stresses induced due to global environmental change have indeed become a focal point of researches and study programmes worldwide. Stress caused to plant life has an important consequence to both, vegetation as such and all other global cycles which sustain this `living earth'.
Unlike other already existing works this volume elucidates the plant-pollutant relationship in a manner that defines not only the drastic effects of pollutants on plants but concomitantly highlights the hitherto less focused areas namely phytoindication, phytoremediation and stress tolerant bioaesthetic development, thus concentrating more on plant than pollutant. The book would help understand the magnitude of environmental stress in the coming years and may play a formative role in defining future research and policy areas along with providing impetus to development of newer eco-technologies.
The book shall interest both students and researchers of environmental sciences, ecology, forestry and related disciplines as well as persons and organisations engaged in environmental management and eco-conservation.

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Foreword
Preface
Climate Change - Implications for the Developing Countries	p. 1
Predicting the Impacts of Climate Change on Vegetation	p. 17
Air Pollution Impacts on Agriculture - A Global Issue	p. 27
Effects of Air Pollution of Herbivorous Insects	p. 41
Floristic Summary of North American Plant Species in the Air Pollution Literature	p. 53
The Impacts of Air Pollution on Crops in Developing Countries - A Case Study in Pakistan	p. 63
Pollution vis-a-vis Biodiversity	p. 73
Elevated Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide and Plant Responses	p. 89
Implications for Variation in Carbon Sources for the Global Warming Potential of Methane	p. 103
The Impact of Nitrogen Compounds - A Problem of Growing Concern	p. 107
Nitrogen Dioxide and Nitrogen Nutrition in Plants	p. 121
Atmospheric H[subscript 2]S Pollution - Deposition and Impact on Sulphur Metabolism in Plants	p. 135
Long-Term Effects of Metal on Helophytes in Lakes	p. 143
Heavy Metal Emission from Thermal Power Plants and its Implication on Vegetative Environment - A Case Study	p. 153
Studies on the Impact of Certain Oxidizing Pollutants and Growth Regulating Substances on Oryza sativa var. Tulasi	p. 165
Cadmium Induced Adaptive Response in Plant Cells In vivo - A Possible Model Based on Genotoxicity Studies	p. 173
Screening for Clastogenic Effects of Arsenicals on Plants In vivo	p. 185
Effect of Chromium(VI) on Growth and Physiology of Giant Duckweed Spirodela polyrrhiza (L.) Schleiden	p. 195
Effects of Transpiration, Carbon Dioxide and Ozone on the Content of Cadmium and Zinc in Spring Wheat Grain	p. 207
Growth Responses of Cassia sophera L. to Thermal Power Plant Emissions with Reference to Distance from the Source	p. 219
Toxicity of Arsenic on Two Tropical Marine Phytoplankton	p. 241
Aquatic Weeds as Indicators of Water Quality	p. 251
A Comparative Survey of the Phytoplanktonic Flora in the Three Lagoons in Southern Sri Lanka with Special Reference to Their Usage as Biomonitors	p. 259
Evaluation of Plants Growing Around a Cement Factory	p. 269
Wild Plant Species in Bioindication of Polluted Environment	p. 285
Calcutta Metropolis - Pollution and Plants	p. 299
Copper and Zinc Content in the Food Commodities of Hyderabad	p. 315
Methane Efflux from Wetland Rice Fields	p. 323
The Use of Plants to Measure Global Distribution of Organochlorines	p. 335
Effects of Toxicants (pollutants) on a Biological Species - Some Mathematical Models	p. 345
Lead Mediated Synthesis of Metal Binding Peptides (Phytochelatins) in Aquatic Plant Vallisneria spiralis L.	p. 357
Biosynthesis and Metal-Binding Characteristics of Phytochelatins	p. 365
Studies on Potential Use of Cyanobacterium Westiellopsis for Bioremediation of Copper	p. 385
Use of Water Hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes) in Treatment Systems for Textile Factory Effluents	p. 391
Environmental Degradation and Ex-situ Conservation of Nelumbo nucifera	p. 405
Embryological Base of Plasticity and Adaptive Potentials of Reproductive Systems in Flowering Plants	p. 411
Ecotechnological Approach in Greenbelt Development	p. 423
Greenbelts for Industrial Areas	p. 431
Revegetation of a Coal Mine Overburden Dump	p. 445
Reclamation of Flyash Landfill Areas Through Planting of Nitrogen Fixing Tree Species	p. 449
Acknowledgements	p. 457
Subject Index	p. 459
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