Abstract:
With the growth of the world's population, there is concern about environmental pollution and chemical toxicity. Rapid industrialization and urbanization processes have resulted in the introduction into natural resources such as soil, water, and air of contaminants such as pesticides, petroleum products, acids, and heavy metals, thus degrading not only the nature of the climate but also affecting both plants and animals. Substantial environmental contaminants that cause toxic effects on plants are heavy metals like lead, nickel, cadmium, copper, cobalt, chromium, and mercury, thus decreasing productivity and posing harmful threats to agro-ecosystems. They function as stress on plants and influence the physiology of plants. Here, the present study was aimed to analyze the effect of selected heavy metals (mercury) in different activities conducted in the Department of Botany, Bacha Khan University Charsadda. The effect of hydroxyl benzoic acid foliar spray was studied to find the concentration of mercury both in soil and in Abelmoschus esculentus L. Based on these experimental results, the heavy metal (mercury) showed an adverse effect on growth and biochemical constituents of Abelmoschus esculentus L. (Okra), but it has been improved by exogenous foliar application of hydro benzoic acid (HBA). These results exhibited that hydro benzoic acid (HBA) play a positive role by enhancing plant growth under the influence of heavy metal (mercury). Thus far, the more study suggested the consequence of HBA on seedling growth and biochemical constituents of other agriculture plants under the heavy metal, saline stress, and/or the nutrient deficient soil to examine the role of HBA under the stress condition.
Page(s):
87-87
DOI:
DOI not available
Published:
Journal: Abstract Book on Second International Conference on Recent Approaches in Plant Sciences (RAPS-23) 4-5 May 2023 , Volume: 0, Issue: 0, Year: 2023
Keywords:
Foliar Spray
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Biochemical parameters
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Mercury stress
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Ablemochus esculentus