Deposition and impact of urban atmospheric dust on two medicinal plants during different seasons in NCR delhi

Aerosol and Air Quality Research

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 2920-2932

  Gupta, Gyan Prakash ^a   Kumar, Bablu ^a   Singh, Sudha ^a   Kulshrestha, Umesh Chandra ^a  

^a JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Biochemical constituents; Foliar surface; Ionic fluxes; Stomata damage; Urban dust

Indexed keywords

ASCORBIC ACID; DEPOSITION; HOUSING; PLANTS (BOTANY);

BIOCHEMICAL CONSTITUENTS; DEPOSITION FLUXES; IONIC FLUXES; MORPHOLOGICAL STUDY; NATIONAL CAPITAL REGIONS; PHOTOSYNTHETIC PIGMENTS; RESIDENTIAL SITE; STOMATA DAMAGE;

DUST;

AMINO ACID; ASCORBIC ACID; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; DICOTYLEDON; DUST; ION; MEDICINAL PLANT; MORPHOLOGY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PIGMENT; PLANT EXTRACT; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEASONALITY; STOMATA; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

DELHI; INDIA;

MORUS (PLANT); MORUS ALBA; TERMINALIA ARJUNA;

EID: 84993661679     PISSN: 16808584     EISSN: 20711409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4209/aaqr.2015.04.0272     Document Type: Article

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