Responses of greening bean seedling leaves to nitrogen dioxide and nutrient nitrate supply

• Published in: Environmental pollution (1987) Vol. 86; no. 1; pp. 37 - 42
• Main Authors: Srivastava, H.S., Ormrod, D.P., Hale, B.A.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Elsevier Ltd 1994; Elsevier
• Subjects: Agronomy. Soil science and plant productions; bean seedlings; Biological and medical sciences; chlorophyll; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; leaf growth; nitrate nutrition; Nitrogen dioxide; Non agrochemicals pollutants; Phaseolus vulgaris; Phytopathology. Animal pests. Plant and forest protection; Pollution effects and side effects of agrochemicals on crop plants and forest trees. Other anthropogenic factors; Pollution effects. Side effects of agrochemicals; chlorophyll; bean seedlings; leaf growth; nitrate nutrition; Nitrogen dioxide; Chlorophyll; Nutrition; Growth; Plant juvenile growth stage; Greening; Plant leaf; Nitrates; Continuous stirred tank reactor; Grain legume; Organic pigment; Controlled environment study; Phytotoxicity; Leguminosae; Phaseolus vulgaris; Dicotyledones; Angiospermae; Air pollution; Spermatophyta; Pollutant effect; Carotenoid

Phaseolus vulgaris cv. Kinghorn Wax seedlings grown in darkness at 25°C for 7 days with half strength Hoagland's nutrient solution containing no nitrogen, were transferred to lit continouus stirred tank reactors (CSTRs) in atmospheres containing 0 or 0·3 ppm NO 2 and irrigated with a nutrient s...