Qurat Ul Ain Rahat, Mansoor Hameed, Sana Fatima, Muhammad Sajid Aqeel Ahmad, Muhammad Ashraf, Farooq Ahmad, Sangam Khalil, Mehwish Munir, Syed Mohsan Raza Shah, Iftikhar Ahmad, Adnan Younis
Micro and macro-morphological features contribute to plants' tolerance to a variety of environmental pollutants. The contribution of such structural modifications in the phytoremediation potential of Diplachne fusca populations collected from five saline habitats were explored when treated with 100 to 400 mM NaCl for 75 days along with control. Structural modifications in the populations from the highest salinity included development of aerenchyma in stem instead of chlorenchyma, absence of excretory hairs in stem, and exceptionally large trichomes on the leaf surface to help excretion of excess salt...
July 21, 2022: International Journal of Phytoremediation