Environmental Stress: Indication, Mitigation and Eco-conservation

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List of Contributors. Foreword and Preface. Environmental Stress. 1. Climate Change - Implications for the Developing Countries; S.K. Sinha. 2. Predicting the Impacts of Climate Change on Vegetation; T.W. Ashenden, et al. 3. Air Pollution Impacts on Agriculture: A Global Issue; M.R. Ashmore, et al. 4. Effects of Air Pollution on Herbivorous Insects; J.N.B. Bell. 5. Floristic Summary of North American Plant Species in the Air Pollution Literature; J.P. Bennett. 6. The Impacts of Air Pollution on Crops in Developing Countries - A Case Study in Pakistan; S.R.A. Shamsi, et al. 7. Pollution vis-à-vis Biodiversity; P.B. Rastogi, N. Rastogi. 8. Elevated Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide and Plant Responses; M. Agrawal, S.S. Deepak. 9. Implications for Variation in Carbon Sources for Global Warming Potential of Methane; C.K. Varshney, A.K. Attri. 10. The Impact of Nitrogen Compounds - A Problem of Growing Concern; B. Prinz. 11. Nitrogen Dioxide and Nitrogen Nutrition in Plants; H.S. Srivastava. 12. Atmospheric H2S Pollution - Deposition and Impact on Sulphur Metabolism in Plants; L.J. de Kok, et al. 13. Long Term Effects of Metal on Helophytes in Lakes; G. Blake. 14. Heavy Metal Emission from Thermal Power Plants and its Implications in Vegetative Environment - A Case Study; D.K. Soni, et al. 15. Studies on the Impact of Certain Oxidizing Pollutants and Growth Regulating Substances on Oryza sativa var. Tulasi; S.H. Raza, K. Gouri. Stress Indication. 16. Cadmium induced Adaptive response in Plant Cells in vivo - A Possible Model Based on Genotoxicity Studies; B.B. Panda, et al. 17. Screening for Clastogenic Effects of Arsenicals on Plants in-vivo; B. Bandopadhyay, A. Sharma. 18. Effect of Chromium(VI) on Growth and Metabolic Activities of Giant Duckweed Spirodela polyrrhiza (L.) Schleinden; R.D. Tripathi, S. Smith. 19. Effects of Transpiration, Carbon Dioxide and Ozone on the Content of Cadmium and Zinc in Spring Wheat Grain; H. Pleijel, et al. 20. Growth Responses of Cassia sophera L. to Thermal Power Plant Emissions with Reference to Distance from the Source; Mahmooduzzafar, M. Iqbal. 21. Toxicity of Arsenic on Two Tropical Marine Phytoplankton; I. Melor, et al. 22. Aquatic Weeds as Indicators of Water Quality; A. Dewanji, S. Matai. 23. A Comparative Survey of Phytoplanktonic Flora in the Three Lagoons in Southern Sri Lanka with Special Reference to Their Usage as Biomonitors; M.P. De Silva, D.G.T. Priyadarshana. 24. Evaluation of Plants Growing around a Cement Factory; J. Misra, et al. 25. Wild Plant Species in Bioindication of Polluted Environment; G. Murin, K. Micieta. 26. Calcutta Metropolis - Pollution and Plants; R.K. Chakraverty, E. Raychaudhuri. 27. Copper and Zinc Content in the Food Commodities of Hyderabad; K. Gouri, S.H. Raza. 28. Methane Efflux from Wetland Rice Fields; H.-U. Neue, et al. 29. The Use of Plants to Measure the Global Distribution of Organochlorines; D.B. Peakall. 30. Effects of Toxicants (Pollutants) on a Biological Species -Some Mathematical Models; J.B. Shukla, et al. Mitigation & Eco-Conservation. 31. Lead Mediated Synthesis of Metal Binding Peptides (Phytochelatins) in Aquatic Plant Vallisneria spiralis L.; M. Gupta, et al. 32. Biosynthesis and Metal Binding Characteristics of Phytochelatins; R.K. Mehra. 33. Studies on Potential Use of Cyanobacterium Westiellopsis for Bioremediation of Copper; L. Taneja, T. Fatma. 34. Use of Water Hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes) in Treatment Systems for Textile Factory Effluents; N.S. Gamage, P.A.J. Yapa. 35. Environmental Degradation and ex-situ Conservation of Nelumbo nucifera; S.C. Sharma, A.K. Goel. 36. Embryological Base of Plasticity and Adaptive Potentials of Reproductive Systems in Flowering Plants; T.B. Batygina. 37. Ecotechnological Approach in Greenbelt Development; P.S. Dubey, S. Dubey. 38. Greenbelts for Industrial Areas; S. Chaphekar. 39. Revegetation of a Coal Mine Overburden Dump; R.S. Singh, et al. 40. Reclamation of Flyash Landfill Areas Through Planting of Nitrogen Fixing Tree Species; R.J. Srivastava, et al. Acknowledgements. Subject Index.