Meenakshi Sharma and Vinay Prabha Sharma
Department of Botnay, M.K.P., P.G. College, Dehradun, U.K. (India).
Department of Chemistry, Meerut College, Meerut – U.P. (India)
Abstract: Proper growth of plants is essential for high productivity of food grains and vegetation which may be affected by pollutants in environment. As a part of study of the effect of acid rain on plants, its impact on the morphology, dry weight and net primary productivity was studied. Results of study are being discussed in present publication.
Keywords : Solanum melongena, acid rain, Dry weight fraction, net primary productivity
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