Environmental Pollution and Plant Responses

Title: Environmental Pollution and Plant Responses
Author: Madhoolika Agrawal, Shashi Bhushan Agrawal
ISBN: 1566703417 / 9781566703413
Format: Hard Cover
Pages: 408
Publisher: CRC Press
Year: 1999
Availability: Out of Stock

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Contains information that is comprehensive and global in scope
Presents a holistic approach to environmental problems throughout the world
Covers recent trends in understanding mechanisms of action individually and in combination with other factors
Evaluates recent trends in global climatic change
Gives management strategies to be followed for abating the problem.

One of the most problematic issues confronting societies today is the massive transformations of the environment throughout the world. The challenge of maintaining a sustainable environment is the most pressing issue of our time.

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Global Climate Change and Crop Responses: Uncertainties Associated With the Current Methodologies
The Effects of Climate Change on the Behavior of Woody Perennials
CO2 Enrichment of the Atmosphere and Water Economy of Plants
Plant Responses to elevated CO2: A Perspective From Natural CO2
UV Effects on Plants
Field Studies on Impacts of Air Pollution on Agricultural Crops
Air Pollution and Vegetation Damage in South America: State of Knowledge and Perspectives
Effects of Air Pollution on Plant Diversity
Effects of Tropospheric Ozone on Woody Plants
Extracellular Antioxidants: A Protective Screen Against Ozone?
Early Detection Mechanisms of Tolerance, and Amelioration of Ozone Stress in Crop Plants
Defense Strategies against Ozone in Trees: The Role of Nutrition
Use of Protective Chemicals to Assess the Effects of Ambient Ozone on Plants
Sources, Atmospheric Transport and Sinks of Tropospheric Nitrous and Nitric Acids
Effects of Sulfur Dioxide and Acid Deposition on Chinese Crops
The Use of Calibrated Passive Monitors to Assess Crop Loss Due to Ozone in Rural Locations
Wild Plant and Crop Plant Species for "in situ" Microspore Analysis of a Polluted Environment
Phytomonitoring in Industrial Areas
Statistical Baseline Values for Chemical Elements in the Lichen Hypogymnia physodes
Monitoring Air Pollutant Deposition in the Arctic with a Lichen by Means of Microscopy and Energy-Dispersive X-Ray Microanalysis: A Case Study
Phytochelation and Metal Tolerance