Bioindication of Trace Metal Pollution in the Atmosphere of Baku City Using Ligustrum Japonicum, Olea Europea, and Pyracantha Coccinea Leaves

Youssef, Naglaa; Markert, Bernd; Gurbanov, Elshad; Sevnic, Haciyeva; Wünschmann, Simone

doi:10.3846/16486897.2013.804828

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“…The reason for the formation of necrosis is photodynamic and free radical oxidation as well as chemical poisoning of cells by high concentrations of toxic compounds. It has been shown that plants can accumulate heavy metals in their leaves, in particular lead (Youssef et al, 2014). In gas mixtures nitrogen oxides synergistically enhance the phyto-toxicity of sulfur oxide (IV).…”

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Effect of vehicle emissions on the morphological and physiological changes of Taraxacum officinale web

Chemerys¹,

Myslyuk²,

Chemerys³

2020

Ukr J Ecol

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Road transport is one of the main pollutants of atmospheric air and soil in modern cities, therefore, an important issue is the comprehensive diagnosis of the state of the environment, which can be carried out by phytoindication methods, and which make it possible to comprehensively assess the environmental risks of the roadside environment for living organisms. The article analyzes the morphological and physiological changes of Taraxacum officinale Web. that occurred under the influence of vehicle emissions. For research, we chose a territory with significant aerotechnogenic loads due to both stationary sources of pollution and traffic flows –the southwestern district of the city for the analysis of plants, the following indicators were studied: mass of plants; leaf length;proportion of altered forms; ascorbic acid content; chlorophyll concentration. In the study, biometric, spectrophotometric and statistical methods were used. The results of the studies showed that in all plants inhibition of parameters was observed in comparison with the control samples. An analysis of the tightness of the relationship between the morphophysiological parameters of the plant, the traffic intensity and the distance from the road were influenced by the average mass of plants (r=0.97) in the area with heavy traffic, the content of chlorophyll (r=0.92) in the same area, the proportion of altered forms (r=-0.94). The correlation coefficient of the proportion of altered forms is negative, since the number of altered forms decreases with increasing distance from the road. It was found, that content of chlorophyll depends on traffic intensity and the distance from the road (the correlation coefficient ranged from 0.88–0.97). Indicators of leaf length and vitamin C content turned out to be less informative, since there is no clear relationship between these indicators and distance from the road (r=0.54), although with an increase in the distance from the highway, there is a slight increase in leaf length, but the content of vitamin C did not show depending on the distance to the road. The further developments lies in the refinement of the information content of such an indicator as the content of ascorbic acid in order to use it to indicate invisible changes in the vegetation cover.

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Effect of vehicle emissions on the morphological and physiological changes of Taraxacum officinale web

Chemerys¹,

Myslyuk²,

Chemerys³

2020

Ukr J Ecol

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“…BioMAP itself deals already more than 20 years with these innovative methods (some relevant examples on B&B activities are given in Almeida et al 2015;Branquinho et al 2008;Chudzińska et al 2015;El-Khabib et al 2011;Figueiredo et al 2001;Freitas et al 2007;Frontasyeva et al 2004 andGorelova et al 2010, Kang et al 2008Lodenius et al 2005, Loppi et al 1994Loppi and Bonini 2000;Nassri et al 2015;Markert et al 2014 andPaoli et al 2013;Prapamontol et al 2014;Saiki et al 2007;Samson et al 2015;Steinnes et al 1997 andSuchara et al 2011;Vuković et al 2015;Youssef et al 2014;Wolterbeek et al 1995 andWünschmann et al 2008). Yet, there is another realm of science where the accreditation and quality control measures have a long and formally well-understood tradition: analytical chemistry.…”

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Quality means decency–on the quality of teaching through accreditation of the course?

Markert¹,

Delakowitz

Fränzle

et al. 2015

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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The term "accreditation" applies to the attempts in various fields of scientific work and administration. It refers to an acknowledgement of some particular positive (wanted) property being present in or brought about by either a procedure or technical system, an acknowledgement which is then formally issued by some authority generally accepted to be able to prove and file such statements. Bioindication & Biomonitoring (B&B) technologies are highly influenced by accreditation procedures, because both B&B technologies are often related to accreditation during the overall instrumental measurement processes applied. As an example, tuna fish used for (bio) monitoring salt water systems on pollution by Pb will be presented. Analytical measurement results from the International Measurement Evaluation Programme (IMEP 20) and additionally the construction of the university course "Integrative sustainable management: quality, environmental, health, safety and risk management (QUAR)" are reviewed in this respect. It was a serious finding by the multi-participant IMEP study that neither quality control measures nor accreditation actually ensure improved quality of measurement results, i.e. data produced by analytical laboratories. Accordingly, even though the accreditation of study curricula is often done with utmost diligence and precision, and while it is fairly important for making study curricula throughout Europe (and the World) fitting and comparable to each other to get study results produced and tested at university X also be accepted when changing to university Y, we cannot assume or take for granted that the mere protocol of accreditation will do anything positive to improve the chance to get better or "more correct" results. A single member of lab staff or professor changing to some other position might seriously compromise the turnout of some analytical lab or university course at least in the short term regardless of whether accreditation was done or not. As consequence, data obtained by B&B technologies have to be discussed and handled with the highest care to reach acceptable and scientifically sound goals of quality.

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“…This method is very advantageous since the cost is low and it can be used on a large scale with high efficiency, offering an interesting tool to monitor heavy metal contamination in the air and soils (Pirintsos and Loppi 2008;Stamenkovic et al 2013;Antonucci et al 2016;Belguidoum et al 2020). Several higher plants have been used to assess metal contamination in the air and soils because of their accumulation properties (Al-Khlaifat and Al-Khashman 2007;Berlizov et al 2007;Di Lonardo et al 2011;Youssef et al 2014, Belguidoum et al 2020Vannucchi et al 2020). Studies have shown that the leaves of higher plants adsorb MTE from wet and dry atmospheric deposition and accumulate metals from the soil and the atmosphere (Maher et al 2008;Barış et al 2015;Lograda et al 2016).…”

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Heavy metals accumulation in Nerium oleander leaves across urban areas in Setif region, Algeria

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Abstract. Koucim MA, Belguidoum A, Lograda T, Ramdani M. 2021. Heavy metals accumulation in Nerium oleander leaves across urban areas in Setif region, Algeria. Biodiversitas 22: 3083-3091. Pollution by Metallic trace elements (MTE) has become one of the most serious environmental problems resulting from human activity. Plants, which are the base of the food chain, can take up MTE from the soil solution; hyper-accumulators can store high levels of heavy metals in their aerial parts at high concentrations. These plants can be used in phytoremediation. This study aimed to investigate the accumulation of MTE in the leaves of Nerium oleander to monitor environmental pollution of several areas in the province of Setif, Algeria. The samples of N. oleander leaves were collected from 20 urban areas in Setif Province. The concentrations of seven metallic trace elements (Cd, Mn, Pb, Sb, Cu, Bi and Fe) were determined using Flame Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometry (AASF). The results show that the concentrations of heavy metals in the leaves of N. oleander, in general, were very high, far exceeding the certified standard ranges. The order of MTE in the leaves was found as follows: Mn> Sb> Bi> Pb> Fe> Cu> Cd. Our findings indicate that although N. oleander showed a significant capacity to accumulate MTE, the urban areas of Setif province were highly polluted by heavy metals. The presence of metal ions in the aerial parts of the plant indicates that N. oleander is a hyper-accumulator of metals with tolerance to Mn, Sb, and Pb, and can be used as a bio-monitor. This opens up prospects for its application for soil phytoremediation.

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Bioindication of Trace Metal Pollution in the Atmosphere of Baku City Using Ligustrum Japonicum, Olea Europea, and Pyracantha Coccinea Leaves

Cited by 6 publications

References 15 publications

Effect of vehicle emissions on the morphological and physiological changes of Taraxacum officinale web

Effect of vehicle emissions on the morphological and physiological changes of Taraxacum officinale web

Quality means decency–on the quality of teaching through accreditation of the course?

Heavy metals accumulation in Nerium oleander leaves across urban areas in Setif region, Algeria

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