Vol. 5 (06) pp. 382-388 DOI: 10.21474/IJAR01/4423

FOLIAR DUST ACCUMULATION POTENTIAL OF SOME SELECTED PLANT SPECIES GROWN ALONGSIDE THE HIGHWAY AT SUGANDHA, HOOGHLY, WEST BENGAL, INDIA.

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The increasing Vehicular exhaust has a significant contribution on urban air pollution. Roadside Plants have to suffer a lot from automobile exhaust and dust particles. The ability of each plant species to captured particulate matters (SPM) by their foliar surface varies greatly and depends on several surface characteristics of twigs, bark and foliage of the plants .The present study was undertaken along the State Highway SH 13 road side of Sugandha located in the Hooghly,West-Bengal, India to assess the Dust capturing potential of some selected plant species . Results showed that dust accumulation on the leaves ranged from 0.00102 g/cm2 in Tabernaemontana divaricata to 0.003225 g/cm2 in Mangifera indica and followed the descending order of pollutant sink as Albizia saman (0.00296 g/cm2)> Ficus racemosa (0.00292 g/cm2)> Cajanus cajan (0.00266 g/cm2). The study determined a set of plant species that have high potential of foliar dust deposition which will help determine the optimal plant species to be used as natural filters to mitigate particulate roadside pollution.

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Monalisa Das, Moumita Das and Ambarish Mukherjee. (2017); FOLIAR DUST ACCUMULATION POTENTIAL OF SOME SELECTED PLANT SPECIES GROWN ALONGSIDE THE HIGHWAY AT SUGANDHA, HOOGHLY, WEST BENGAL, INDIA., International Journal of Advanced Research (IJAR), 5 (06), 382-388, ISSN 2320-5407. DOI: https://doi.org/10.21474/IJAR01/4423

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Moumita Das
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