Morphological Variation in Plants Growing in Polluted and Non-polluted Environment
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https://doi.org/10.55863/ijees.2025.0532Keywords:
Water pollution, MorphologyAbstract
Plants growing in industrial areas can absorb pollutants, detoxify them, and tolerate high pollution levels. The degree of tolerance is indirectly correlated with the intensity of changes in many characteristics of plants. In the present study, analysis of morphological changes in plants induced by the water and soil pollutants leaching from the Carbo and TATA Metalics factory of Kharagapur was considered. Four water and soil pollution-tolerating plant species - Pistia stratiotes, Nelambo nucifera, Eichhornia crassipes, and Trapa natans - were selected for the study. Quantitative analysis of some major morphological parameters of these selected plants growing in said polluted areas revealed drastic changes in morphological features observed with respect to the plants growing in non-polluted areas. Thus, in the future, the analysis of the morphological features of these plant species will play an important role in the study of phytoremediation and green development in urban areas.
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