Plant Response to Air Pollution.

Abstract

Air pollution poses a serious threat to human health and the environment worldwide. It contributes significantly to regional and global atmospheric issues such as global warming, acidification and depletion of the ozone layer. It affects every living thing, including all kinds of vegetation on which we depend for our survival. Although several works have appeared on air pollution, few are able to provide the broad background that encompasses the whole gamut of plant response to atmospheric insult. This multi-authored work integrates the varied plant growth responses to the pollution stress the focus of the attention is plant rather than pollutant. This portrays a clearer picture of plant performance versus air pollution, and helps develop a better insight of the pollution-based disturbances at the different levels of plant life. The effects of different pollutants on plants are noted, including carbon dioxide, ozone and sulphur compounds.