PMID: 16649623May 3, 2006Paper

Phytostabilisation of tailing dams: a quantification of physiological and biological responses in plants

Journal of Environmental Science & Engineering
A Sharma, N C Aery

Abstract

Effect of unamended and variously amended tailings of Rajpura-Dariba mines, Udaipur, India was studied on certain physiological and biochemical responses of plants. Plants grown in unamended tailings, showed reduction in shoot-root length, shoot-root dry weight, chlorophyll content and an increase in total phenol contents and peroxidase activity. Ameliorations resulted in an increase in growth and chlorophyll contents, a decrease in total phenol contents and reduction in peroxidase activity in the test plants.

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