Assessment of Physical and Biochemical Qualities of Solanum tuberosum L. Under Roadside Traffic Polluted Area

Deepak Singh¹, Manoj Kumar Sharma^1*, Manoj Kumar Sharma² and Mahender Singh³

¹Department of Botany, J.V. College, Baraut, Baghpat, Uttar Pradesh, India

²Department of Bioinformatics, J.V. College, Baraut, Baghpat, Uttar Pradesh, India.

³Department of Botany, Ch. Charan Singh University, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India.

Corresponding Author E-mail: mbhardwaj1501@gmail.com

DOI : http://dx.doi.org/10.12944/CARJ.11.3.29

Abstract:

Solanum tuberosum L. is an important crop that yields high-quality of vegetables. anthropogenic activities are increasing traffic and road air pollution day by day. The impact of traffic road air pollution on agricultural vegetation was examined in this study work because traffic air pollution has become a life-threatening problem. We selected sites with and without traffic roads (control) in order to compare crop samples. The values of the photosynthetic pigments decreased (chlorophyll 'a', 5.43 ˃ 4.00; chlorophyll 'b', 8.91 ˃ 8.26; and carotenoid, 5.62 ˃ 4.26), and growth also decreased (thickness: 8.4 ˃ 5.6; length: 23.4 ˃ 13.1; and weight: 7.16 ˃ 5.19) that we observed in our record are also statistically significant. Air quality was determined to be low, photosynthetic pigment quality was lowered, and crop vegetation growing near busy roads had stunted development. These were the outcomes of excessive quantities of dangerous gaseous components found at a traffic road site. Physical and biochemical quality results also showed variation in traffic road and control sites grown crop vegetation.

Keywords:

Solanum tuberosum L.; Air pollution; Chlorophyll contents; Growth quality

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