Assessment of Growth Rate and Photosynthetic Pigments of Saccharum officinarum L. Plantlet under Polluted Area

Author: Deepak Singh, Ishwar Singh and Manoj Kumar Sharma

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Abstract

Saccharum officinarum L. is a valuable crop that produced high content sugar molecules. As we see, traffic and air pollution increased day by day due to anthropogenic activities. In this research record, the effect of traffic air pollution on crop vegetation was investigated. We have chosen traffic road and non-traffic road (control) sites for the comparative study of crop samples. At the traffic road site loss of growth and photosynthetic pigments in the crop, and chlorosis and scars are found on leaves and stems. These are the effect of obnoxious gaseous factors which had been found in multiplied stages within the traffic road site. We observed in our findings, growth terms values (thickness: 41.00-35.66, length: 50.6- 42.02 and weight: 44.49-36.01), the photosynthetic pigments values (chlorophyll ‘a’ 5.84-5.56, chlorophyll ‘b’ 5.90-4.79, total chlorophyll 11.28-9.93 and carotenoid 4.47-3.14) there was a statistically significant mean difference between control and traffic road sites. Crop vegetation growing in traffic road sites showed reduced growth, and photosynthetic pigments quality and air quality is found to be poor. This study portrays a clear view of the unfavourable results of traffic air pollutants on crop vegetation. Physiological and biochemical results quality show variation in crop vegetation on traffic roads and control sites.

Keywords

Saccharum officinarum L., Photosynthetic pigments, Obnoxious, Pollution

Conclusion

The findings of this research work demonstrated that traffic air pollution caused by various forms of automobile traffic congestion has an adverse effect. Traffic air pollution has become life-threatening, from this research record, it was found that some gases (CO, NO, NO2, SO2, O3, and UV) harm crops and air quality is found to be poor. Showing the impact of the under-traffic road air pollution on growth qualities and photosynthetic pigments along with changes in the of S. officinarum L., as we know, traffic air pollution is responsible for the growth qualities and photosynthetic pigments of crops.

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How to cite this article

Deepak Singh, Ishwar Singh and Manoj Kumar Sharma (2023). Assessment of Growth Rate and Photosynthetic Pigments of Saccharum officinarum L. Plantlet under Polluted Area. Biological Forum – An International Journal, 15(5): 725-730.