Effects of lead on seedling growth of Thespesia populnea L.

Advances in Environmental Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 184-190

  Kabir, M ^a   Iqbal, M Zafar ^a   Shafiq, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARACHI   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

THESPESIA POPULNEA;

EID: 77955590540     PISSN: 19950756     EISSN: 19981066     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. Abdullah, C.M. and M.Z. Iqbal, 1991. Response of automobiles, stone and cement particulate matters on stomatal clogging of plants. Geobios, 18: 196-201.
2. Ahmed, Z. and S.A. Qadir, 1975. The effects of air pollution on stomata clogging, carbohydrates and chlorophyll contents in certain roadside plants. Pakistan Journal of Botany, 7(10): 81-84.
3. Brown, M.T. and D.A. Wilkins, 1986. The effect of zinc on germination, survival and growth of betula. Environmental Pollution (Series A), 41: 53-61.
4. Campbell, J.A., 1976. A mathematical treatment of variation of heavy metal content of lichen with distance from a source. Lichnologist, 8: 83-86.
5. Cho, C. and Y. Wang, 1990. Effects of heavy metals on the infection of vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizae and the growth of maize. New Series, 152: 34-45.
6. Dalal, T. and P. Bairgi, 1985. Effect of Hg, As and Pb on germination and seedling growth of two Jute varieties. Environmental Ecology, 3: 403-407.
7. Haghiri, F., 1973. Cadmium uptake by plants. Journal of Environmental Quality, 2: 93-96.
8. Iqbal, M.Z., M. Shafiq and A.S. Kausar, 2001. Toxic effects of lead and cadmium individually and in combination on germination and growth of Leucaena leucocephala. Pakistan Journal of Botany, 33: 551-557.
9. Iqbal, M.Z. and K. Rahmati, 1992. Tolerance of Albizia lebbeck to Cu and Fe application. Ekologia (CSFR), 11: 427-430.
10. Iqbal, M.Z. and M. Shafiq, 2003. Effects of aluminium on germination and growth of two different wheat cultivars. Acta Botanica Hungarica, 45: 315-321.
11. Israr, M. and S.V. Sahi, 2008. Promising role of plant hormones in translocation of lead in Sesbania drummondii shoots. Environmental Pollution, 153(1): 29-36.
12. Karataglis, S., L. Symeonidis. and M. Moustakas, 2008. Effect of Toxic Metals on the Multiple Forms of Esterases of Triticum aestivum cv. Vergina. Journal of Agronomy and Crop Science, 160(2): 106-112.
13. Kumar, P.B.A.N., V. Dushenkov, H. Motto and I. Raskin, 1995. Phytoextraction: The use of plants to remediation of soils. Environmental Sd. Technology, 29: 1232-1238.
14. Lasat, M.M., 2002. Phytoextraction of toxic metals. A rewiew of biological mechanism. Journal of Environmental Quality, 31: 109-120.
15. Lagerwerff, J.W. and A.W. Specht, 1970. Contamination of road side vegetation with cadmium, nickel, lead and zinc. Environmental Science and Technology, 4: 583-586.
16. Lerda, D., 1992. The effect of lead on Allium cepa. Mutation Research, 231: 80- 92.
17. Miles, C.D., J.S. Brandle, D.J. Danial, O. Chur-Der, P.D. Schnare and D.J. Uhlik, 1972. Inhibition of photosystem II in isolated chloroplast by lead. Plant Physiology Lancaster, 49: 820-825.
18. Minaii, B., M. Abdollahi and Z. Towfighi, 2008. Toxicity of lead acetate on rabbit arteries: A histological evaluation. Toxicology, 180(1): S53.
19. Morzeck, J.R.E. and N.A. Funicelli, 1982. Effect of zinc and lead on germination of Spartina alterniflora, Loisel. seeds at various salinities. Envieonmental Experimental Botany, 22: 23-32.
20. Nasralla, M.M. and E.A. Ali, 1985. Lead accumulation in edible proteins of crops grown near Egyptian traffic roads. Agriculture Ecological Environment, 13: 73-82.
21. Nriagu, J.O. and J.M. Pacyna, 1988. Quantitative assessment of world wide contamination of air, water and soil by trace metals. Nature., 333: 134-139.
22. Qadir, N. and M.Z. Iqbal, 1991. Growth of some plants raised from polluted and unpolluted seeds. International Journal of Environmental Study., 39: 95-99.
23. Rashid, P. and S. Mukherji, 1993. Effect of foliar application of lead on the growth and yield parameters of wheat. Pakistan Journal of Scientific and Industrial Research, 36(11): 473-475.
24. Sagar, V.K., C.P. Gregory and S.J. Paul, 1982. Air pollution: an important issue in plant health. Plant Disease, 66: 429-434.
25. Sarkar, A. and S. Jana, 1986. Heavy metal pollution tolerance. Water, Air and Soil Pollution, 27: 15-18.
26. Seenivasan, S., N. Manikandan, N.N. Muraleedharan and R. Selvasundaram, 2008.Heavy metal content of black teas from south India. Food Control, 19(8): 746-749.
27. Sharma, S.S., 1982. Effects of mercury on germination and seedling growth of different varieties of Phaseolus aureus.Indian Journal of Ecology, 9:79-81.
28. Sharma, P. and R.S. Dubey, 2005. Lead toxicity in plants. Brazilian Journal of Plant Physiology, 17: 35-52.
29. Singh, R.P., R.D. Tripathi, S.K. Sinha, R. Maheshwari and H.S. Srivastava, 1997. Response of higher plants to lead contaminated environment, Chemosphere, 34: 2467-2493.
30. Stobrawa, K. and G. Lorenc-Pluciñska, 2007. Changes in carbohydrate metabolism in fine roots of the native European black poplar (Populus nigra L.) in a heavy-metal-polluted environment. Science of the Total Environment, 373(1): 157-165.
31. William, C.H. and D.J. David, 1973. The effects of super phosphate on the cadmium content of soil and plants. Australian Journal of Soil Researcsh, 11: 43-46.