Forest biomonitoring of the largest Slovene thermal power plant with respect to reduction of air pollution

2012 ◽  
Vol 185 (2) ◽  
pp. 1809-1823 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samar Al Sayegh Petkovšek
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Power Plant ◽  
Thermal Power Plant ◽  
Thermal Power

Phytomonitoring of air pollution around a thermal power plant

1989 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 763-769 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Agrawal ◽  
S.B. Agrawal
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Power Plant ◽  
Thermal Power Plant ◽  
Thermal Power

scholarly journals Seeds characters, pollen fertility and flavonoids of ten Brassicaceae collected near a kilns thermal power plant for air pollution bioindication

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 96-104
Author(s):  
MITRA NOORI ◽  
ZAHRA BAGHAEIFAR ◽  
ABDOLKARIM CHEHREGANI ◽  
FARZANEH FARAKI
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Power Plant ◽  
Thermal Power Plant ◽  
Pollen Fertility ◽  
Thermal Power ◽  
Environmental Pollutants ◽  
Pollen Sterility ◽  
Fuel Oil ◽  
Heavy Fuel Oil ◽  
North East

Noori M, Baghaeifar Z, Chehregani A, Faraki F. 2018. Seeds characters, pollen fertility and flavonoids of ten Brassicaceae collected near a kilns thermal power plant for air pollution bioindication. Nusantara Bioscience 10: 96-104. Shazand Steam Power Plant located on North-East of Shazand, Iran began to work from 2000. The power plant necessity fuel is natural gas and mostly heavy fuel oil. The most pollutant of power plant is sulfur compounds in addition to nitric and carbon mono oxide. Because environmental pollutants influence plant fertility and chemical compounds, therefore this study was done on ten wild Brassicaceae (Alyssum linifolium var. linifolium, Alyssum longistylum, Alyssum marginatum, Choriospora persica, Clypeola lappacea, Conringia perfoliata, Descurainia sophia, Goldbachia laevigata, Isatis kotschyana and Neslia apiculata) taxa collected from the thermal power plant area for bioindication of regional air pollution comparing to controls collected 40 km away from the power plant. Brassicaceae members are important for their ecological, pastoral, medicinal and edible points. Seed width and length max. and their ratio and abnormal seed percentage were calculated. Pollen abnormality and sterility percentages determined using Muntezing’s acetocarmine and light microscopy. Also, their pollen flavonoids were semi-quantitatively assessed using two-dimensional paper and thin layer chromatography. Results showed seeds health and their dimensions reduction in polluted samples in comparison with controls. In C. lappacea significant differences of seed and pollen abnormality and pollen sterility percentages, morin and kaempferol concentrations, between control and polluted samples were observed (P≤0.05). Also, number and kind of pollen flavonoid changes especially increasing flavonoid contents were observed in polluted plants comparing to control. Studying seed and pollen characters can be used as air quality bioindicators.

ACTIONS TO REDUCE AIR POLLUTION FROM A COAL THERMAL POWER PLANT

2013 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 443-448 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emilian Stefan Valea ◽  
Ioan Sarbu
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Power Plant ◽  
Thermal Power Plant ◽  
Thermal Power

scholarly journals MORPHOLOGICAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSES OF CROTON BONPLANDIANUM BAILL. TO AIR POLLUTION

1970 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
pp. 35-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Saquib ◽  
A. Ahmad ◽  
K. Ansari
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Power Plant ◽  
Chlorophyll A ◽  
Thermal Power Plant ◽  
Plant Root ◽  
Thermal Power ◽  
Intercellular Co2 Concentration ◽  
Plant Morphology ◽  
Co2 Concentration ◽  
Key Words Air Pollution

The air pollution stress around the thermal power plant lead to the significant reduction in size and biomass of root and shoot, photosynthetic rate, stomatal conductance, intercellular CO2 concentration, photosynthetic pigments and photosynthetic area of  Croton bonplandianum. The resulting stresses of air pollution and reduced foliage further affected the over all morphology and physiology of the plant. Root biomass and chlorophyll a showed maximum reduction than any other selected parameters studied in the stressed area. Chlorophyll a was found to be four and half times more sensitive to air pollutants than carotenoids. Key words:  Air pollution; Thermal power plant; Morphology and physiology; C. bonplandianumDOI: 10.3126/eco.v17i0.4103Ecoprint An International Journal of Ecology Vol. 17, 2010 Page: 35-41 Uploaded date: 29 December, 2010  

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