Evaluating Air Pollution Tolerance Index (APTI) of Two Plant Species from Industrial Area of Jodhpur

Saraswat Punit; Ashita Rai

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Evaluating Air Pollution Tolerance Index (APTI) of Two Plant Species from Industrial Area of Jodhpur

Saraswat Punit, Ashita Rai

Published in International Journal of Energy and Environmental Science (Volume 6, Issue 1)

Received: 30 March 2021 Accepted: 13 April 2021 Published: 26 April 2021

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Jodhpur is the second largest district in the state of Rajasthan. With growth in the population numbers of vehicles along with industries have increased which is affecting the air quality of Jodhpur. Plants have a very close relationship with nature and they act as sink for reducing air pollution. Impact of air pollution on two plants namely Tabernaemontana and Sesbania (vegetable humming bird tree) from heavy industrial area site (HI) Phase II were evaluated in terms of air pollution tolerance index (APTI) by analysing four biochemical parameters namely, total chlorophyll, ascorbic acid, relative water content (RWC), and pH using standard methods. Fresh and mature leaves were collected every month from August 2019 to March 2020 in morning hours between 8.00 AM and 9.00 AM and total number of vehicles (between 8.00 AM and 4.00 PM) were counted. Average APTI values for Tabernaemontana and Sesbania were found to be 7.13 and 5.90 respectively and hence both the plants fall in the sensitive category. APTI showed a positive correlation with pH, RWC, and ascorbic acid but negative correlation with total chlorophyll in Tabernaemontana, while in Sesbania APTI showed a positive correlation with, relative water content RWC, and total chlorophyll and negative correlation with ascorbic acid and pH. The ascorbic acid content was found to be maximum in both Tabernaemontana and Sesbania in October 2019 (2.0 and 1.66). Relative water content and ascorbic acid of both plants were minimum in November 2019 (RWC 41.79 and 36.81) and August 2019 (0.4487 and 0.2682) respectively.

Published in	International Journal of Energy and Environmental Science (Volume 6, Issue 1)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijees.20210601.12
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Air Pollution Tolerance Index (APTI), Jodhpur, Industrial Area, Biochemical Parameters

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Saraswat Punit

Department of Zoology & Environmental Science, Lachoo Memorial College of Science & Technology (Autonomous), Jodhpur, India
Ashita Rai

Department of Zoology & Environmental Science, Lachoo Memorial College of Science & Technology (Autonomous), Jodhpur, India

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