caa a22 4500 606200096 CHVBK 20210128100942.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10653-014-9657-9 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10653-014-9657-9 RETRACTED ARTICLE: Estimation of Anticipated Performance Index and Air Pollution Tolerance Index and of vegetation around the marble industrial areas of Potwar region: bioindicators of plant pollution response [Elektronische Daten] [Mehwish Noor, Shazia Sultana, Sonia Fatima, Mushtaq Ahmad, Muhammad Zafar, Maliha Sarfraz, Masour Balkhyour, Sher Safi, Muhammad Ashraf] Mitigating industrial air pollution is a big challenge, in such scenario screening of plants as a bio monitor is extremely significant. It requires proper selection and screening of sensitive and tolerant plant species which are bio indicator and sink for air pollution. The present study was designed to evaluate the Air Pollution Tolerance Index (APTI) and Anticipated Performance Index (API) of the common flora. Fifteen common plant species from among trees, herb and shrubs i.e. Chenopodium album (Chenopodiaceae), Parthenium hysterophorus (Asteraceae), Amaranthus viridis (Amaranthaceae), Lantana camara (Verbenaceaea), Ziziphus nummulari (Rhamnaceae), Silibum merianum (Asteraceae), Cannabis sativa (Cannabinaceae), Calatropis procera (Asclepediaceae), Ricinus communis (Euphorbiaceae), Melia azadirachta (Meliaceae), Psidium guajava (Myrtaceae), Eucalyptus globules (Myrtaceae), Broussonetia papyrifera (Moraceae), Withania somnifera (Solanaceae) and Sapium sabiferum (Euphorbiaceae) were selected growing frequently in vicinity of Marble industries in Potwar region. APTI and API of selected plant species were analyzed by determining important biochemical parameter i.e. total chlorophyll, ascorbic acid, relative water content and pH etc. Furthermore the selected vegetation was studied for physiological, economic, morphological and biological characteristics. The soil of studied sites was analyzed. It was found that most the selected plant species are sensitive to air pollution. However B. papyrifera, E. globulus and R. communis shows the highest API and therefore recommended for plantation in marble dust pollution stress area. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2014 Pollution nationallicence Plants nationallicence Biomonitoring nationallicence Marble nationallicence Noor Mehwish Department of Environmental Sciences, Fatima Jinnah Women University, 46000, Rawalpindi, Pakistan aut Sultana Shazia Department of Environmental Sciences, Fatima Jinnah Women University, 46000, Rawalpindi, Pakistan aut Fatima Sonia Department of Environmental Sciences, Fatima Jinnah Women University, 46000, Rawalpindi, Pakistan aut Ahmad Mushtaq Department of Plant Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University, 45320, Islamabad, Pakistan aut Zafar Muhammad Department of Plant Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University, 45320, Islamabad, Pakistan aut Sarfraz Maliha Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Agriculture, 38040, Faisalabad, Pakistan aut Balkhyour Masour Department of Environmental Sciences, King Abdulaziz University, 22254, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia aut Safi Sher Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, 50603, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia aut Ashraf Muhammad Department of Geology, Faculty of Science, University of Malaya, 50603, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia aut Environmental Geochemistry and Health Springer Netherlands 37/3(2015-06-01), 441-455 0269-4042 37:3<441 2015 37 10653 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10653-014-9657-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10653-014-9657-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Noor Mehwish Department of Environmental Sciences, Fatima Jinnah Women University, 46000, Rawalpindi, Pakistan aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Sultana Shazia Department of Environmental Sciences, Fatima Jinnah Women University, 46000, Rawalpindi, Pakistan aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Fatima Sonia Department of Environmental Sciences, Fatima Jinnah Women University, 46000, Rawalpindi, Pakistan aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Ahmad Mushtaq Department of Plant Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University, 45320, Islamabad, Pakistan aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Zafar Muhammad Department of Plant Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University, 45320, Islamabad, Pakistan aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Sarfraz Maliha Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Agriculture, 38040, Faisalabad, Pakistan aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Balkhyour Masour Department of Environmental Sciences, King Abdulaziz University, 22254, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Safi Sher Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, 50603, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Ashraf Muhammad Department of Geology, Faculty of Science, University of Malaya, 50603, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Environmental Geochemistry and Health Springer Netherlands 37/3(2015-06-01), 441-455 0269-4042 37:3<441 2015 37 10653