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The present study has been carried out to assess the dust catching capacity of the leaves of five different species viz. Alstonia scholaris Linn., Cassia siamea Lam., Morus alba L., Nerium indicum L. and Thevitia peruviana (Pers.) K. Schum, growing along the road side ( taken as polluted site ) and away from the road side ( taken as reference site). The evaluation of the data revealed that the dust content on the surface of leaves of all selected species was more at polluted locations in comparison to those growing at reference location. Among the selected species Cassia siamea Lam. shows highest dust catching capacity while the minimum dust catching capacity has been recorded for Nerium indicum L. The highest dust catching capacity of Cassia siamea Lam. has been attributed to its horizontal position of leaves while the minimum dust catching capacity of Nerium indicum L. to its thick, leathery surface and the orientation of the leaves which are growing at an angle with the stem.
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Agarwal, S. and Tiwari, S.L.1997. Susceptibility level of few plants on the basis of air pollution tolerance index.Indian Forester, 123 (4): 319-322.
Anon, 1997.Monitoring of Human exposure to Air pollution in highly Industrial area. Central pollution control board, New Delhi
Barik, R.N., Pradhan, B. and Patel, R.K. 2005.A study of dust pollution around open cast coal mines of IB valley area. J. Indl .Poll. Contl., 21 (2): 305-308.
Brack, C.L. 2002.Pollution mitigation and carbon sequestration by an urban forest.Environ. Pollut.,117 :195-200.
Central Pollution Control Board. 2000. “Air Quality status and trends in India”, National Ambient Air Quality Monitoring Series: NAAQMS/14/1999-2000. Delhi. Cited at http://envfor.nic
Dayal , H. V. and Nandini S. N. 2000. Vehicular Emissions and Ambient. Air Quality in Bangalore City. Poll. Res., 19: 205-209.
Dubey, P.S. and Pawar, K. 1985. Air pollution and plant response centre. In: Prespectives in Environmental Botany. Vol. 1. (eds.) Rao, D.N., K.J. Ahmad, M. Yunus and S.N. Singh. Print House, Lucknow, India, pp. 101-118.
Freer-Smith P.H., Holloway, S.and Goodman, A. 1997. The uptake of particulates by an urban woodland site: description and particulate composition. Environ. Pollut. 95 (1) 27-35.
Kumar, I.S., Rani, P.U. and Suresh, C.H. 2005. Absorption of automobile pollutants by leaf surfaces of various roadside plants and effects on plant biochemical constituents. Poll .Res., 24 (3): 509-512.
Lin, D. 1976. Air pollution threat and responses. Addison, London.
Liu, L. and Peart, M.R. 2012. The morphological structure of leaves and the dust- retaining capability of afforested plants in urban Guangzhou, South China.Environ Sci. Pollut. Res. 19: 3440-3449.
Liu Rentao, Bi Runcheng, Zhao Halin 2008. Dust removal property of major afforested plants in and around urban area, North China. Ecol. Environ. 17(5): 1879-1886.
Pandey, D.D.; Nirala, A.K.and Gautam, R.R. 2003. Impact of stone crusher dust pollution on biomass and chlorophyll of maize crop. In: Dimensions of Environmental Threats (ed. Arvind Kumar). Daya Publishing House, New Delhi, pp.137-140.
Prajapati , S.K. and Tripathi, B.D. 2008. Seasonal variation of leaf dust accumulation and pigment content in Plant species exposed to urban particulates pollution.J. Environ. Qual., 37: 865-870.
Raina, A.K. and Sharma, A. 2006. Assessment of air pollution and its impact on the leaves of some plant species. Poll. Res.; 25 (3): 543-547.
Raina, A.K. and Bala, C. 2007. Effect of vehicular pollution on Polyalthia longifolia Benth. and HK.f. and Ipomea cairica Linn. Sweet in Jammu, J&K. Environment and Ecology, 25S (4): 1103-1109.
Vora, A.B., Bhatnagar, A.R. and Patel, T.S 1986. Comparative study of dust fall on the leaves in high pollution and low pollution areas of Ahmedabad-II. J. Environ. Biol., 7 (3): 155-163.
Wagela, D.K., Pawar K., Dube, B.and Joshi, O.P. 2002. Lead monitoring in air, soil and foliar deposits at Indore city with special reference to automobile pollution. J.Environ. Biol. 23(4) 417:-421.