Cuticular features as indicators of environmental pollution

G. K. Sharma

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Cuticular features as indicators of environmental pollution

Informally Refereed

Authors:

G. K. Sharma

Year:

1976

Type:

General Technical Report

Station:

Northern Research Station

Source:

In: Dochinger, L. S.; Seliga, T. A., eds. Proceedings of the first international symposium on acid precipitation and the forest ecosystem; Gen. Tech. Rep. NE-23. Upper Darby, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station. 927-932

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Abstract

Several leaf cuticular features such as stomatal frequency, stomatal size, trichome length, type, and frequency, and subsidiary cell complex respond to environmental pollution in different ways and hence can be used as indicators of environmental pollution in an area. Several modifications in cuticular features under polluted environments seem to indicate ecotypic or survival significance for the plant species under investigation.

Parent Publication

Proceedings of the first international symposium on acid precipitation and the forest ecosystem

Citation

Sharma, G. K. 1976. Cuticular features as indicators of environmental pollution. In: Dochinger, L. S.; Seliga, T. A., eds. Proceedings of the first international symposium on acid precipitation and the forest ecosystem; Gen. Tech. Rep. NE-23. Upper Darby, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station. 927-932