Cuticular features as indicators of environmental pollution

✍ Scribed by G. K. Sharma

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1977
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 228 KB
• Volume: 8
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0049-6979
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00156720

✦ Synopsis

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.