ICPEP-4 AbstractsAbstracts Fourth International Conference on Plants & Environmental Pollution 8-11 December, 2010 Publication Committee Dr. Nandita Singh (Convener) Dr. P.K. Shirke Dr. Vivek Pandey Dr. Pankaj K. Srivastava Mr. Soumit K. Behera Ms. Sarah Jamil Dr. Abhilash P.C. Ms. Deepika Sharma Ms. Mugdha Srivastava Ms. Vandana Singh Ms. Anshita Raj Ms. Anita Dube Mr. Dilip Chakraborty Preface A host of urgent issues would fill their agenda, when world scientists and academia from different nations meet in Lucknow for the “Fourth International Conference on Plants and Environmental Pollution” (ICPEP-4). Among the pressing problems to be debated would be global climate change, freshwater, dwindling forests, biodiversity losses, GM food, emergent ecological disturbances on plants, environmental issues and other factors in environment and plant relation. This “ABSTRACT BOOK' is a compilation of five hundred forty-nine abstracts on different environmental aspects, from renowned scientists having long working experience in their corresponding field of expertise. The volume elucidates the plant-pollutant relationship in a manner that defines not only the drastic effects of pollutants on plants but concomitantly highlights the hitherto less focused areas namely phytotoxicity, phytoremediation and GM Food, Waste/water management, stress tolerant bioaesthetic development, thus concentrating more on plant than the pollutant. The abstracts included in this volume are those, which were received within prescribed date and found suitable for publication. All abstracts were peer-reviewed for acceptance and then partitioned in different sessions for Oral and Poster presentation. Many abstracts were not in desired formats as well as were long. Abridgement of such abstracts has been done with care to include significant points. Late abstracts have been printed but un- indexed and are appended. The basic purpose of this abstract book is to evaluate, identify the knowledge gaps and provide direction for future research areas of environmental problems and consequent changes and to develop desired management protocols. We express our deep sense of gratitude to Dr. C.S. Nautiyal, Director NBRI and Dr. K.C. Gupta, Director IITR, for their moral and material support. We thank Drs., Dr. P. Nath, D.V. Amla, B.P. Singh, K.J. Ahmad, S.C. Sharma and P. Chandra for their encouragement and valuable suggestions to structure this book. We are indebted to our contributors who despite their various commitments acceded to our request to share their valuable expertise. Thanks are due to the Scientific Program Committee for categorizing the abstracts and editing them. We are also thankful to staff of Eco-auditing Group for their co-operation in various ways. We are also thankful to the various sponsoring agencies for financial support, which made this publication successful. The publication plan finally crystallized through the efforts of M/S Maruti Scanners and their team, we sincerely thank all these people. - Publication Committee ICPEP-4 Scientific Programme Committee Chairman Prof. C.K. Varshney Members Dr. R.D. Tripathi (Convener) Prof. Madhoolika Agrawal Prof. M. Iqbal Dr. Nandita Singh Dr. U.N. Rai Dr. Sarita Sinha Dr. S.N. Singh Dr. Kamla Kulshreshtha Dr. M.R. Suseela Dr. Soumit K. Behera Dr. Pankaj Kumar Srivastava Dr. Anjum Farooqui Dr. Seshu Lavania Dr. Vivek Pandey Dr. Shekhar Mallick Dr. Prabodh Trivedi Dr. P.K. Singh Dr. Devashish Chakrabarty Dr. D.K. Gupta (Spain) CONTENTS Keynote Lectures i Session SI Climate Change 1 Session SII Environment and Biodiversity 23 Session SIII Environmental Biotechnology 49 Session SIV Plant Response to 62 Environmental Pollution Session SV Environmental Impact Assessment 100 Session SVI Bioindication and Bioremediation 119 Session SVII Plant Microbe Interaction 144 Session SVIII Waste/Water Management 157 Session SIX Environmental Issues 171 Late Abstracts 204 Author Index 206 Keynote Lectures --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ABSTRACTS i K-1 K-2 Impact of Climate Change on Biodiversity with Agricultural Air Quality: Research, Policy, and Special Reference to Medicinal Plants Regulations P. Pushpangadan*, Vipin Mohan Dan and V. George Viney P. Aneja Amity Institute for Herbal and Biotech Products Development Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences, North (AIHBPD), 3, Ravi Nagar, Peroorkada P.O., Thiruvananthapuram – Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-8208, U.S.A., Email: 695005, Kerala, INDIA, E-mail:[email protected] [email protected] Climate change and its potential future threats on Agricultural emissions produce significant local and environment have raised the concern of scientists across regional impacts, such as odor, Particulate Matter (PM) globe. Variation in climate conditions has deep impact on the exposure, eutrophication, acidification, and exposure to production of secondary metabolites in plants. Research toxics, and pathogens. Agricultural emissions also studies have brought into light that genomic expression of contribute to the global problems caused by greenhouse gas plants can be affected by such variation resulting in loss of emissions. Agricultural emissions are variable in space and secondary metabolites of human interest. Scientific time and in how they interact within the various processes evidence is mounting proving that climate change is affecting and media effected. Most important in the US are ammonia vegetation pattern, phenology and distribution. These (where agriculture accounts for ~90% of total emissions), evidences seem to be of less importance at first sight, but it is reduced sulfur (unquantified), PM2.5 (~16%), PM10 (~18%), nature's warning signal for future challenges for species methane (29%), nitrous oxide (72%); and odor and emissions survival. These disturbances in seasonal cues has shown of pathogens (both unquantified). Agriculture also striking variation in phenological events like time of plants consumes fossil fuels for fertilizer production and farm bud burst, initial leafing and flowering, fruiting events, time operations, thus emitting carbon dioxide (CO2), oxides of of seed/fruit dispersal. Studies reveal that climate change is nitrogen (NOx), sulfur oxides (SOx) and particulates. Current forcing plants to migrate. Plants' ranges show movement research priorities include the quantification of point and towards poles and higher elevation in an attempt to restore non-point sources, the biosphere-atmosphere exchange of optimal growing conditions. Computer model programs ammonia, reduced sulfur compounds, volatile organic predict that “range” shift of plants will gain acceleration in compounds, greenhouse gases, odor and pathogens, the future due to continued climate changes. This migration of quantification of landscape processes, and the primary and plants in hunt for appropriate growing conditions may secondary emissions of PM. Although European eventually lead to extinction of many valuable medicinal policymakers have made progress in controlling these plant species. Recent years have witnessed extreme weather emissions, regulations in the United States remain events like storms, droughts and floods with more prevalence inadequate. and intensity. Global warming, human activities and other Key words: Agricultural air quality, Carbon dioxide (CO2), Oxides factors will tend to increase the occurrence of these events in of nitrogen (NO ), Sulfur oxides, Research, Policy, Regulations future. Reports from many parts of the world stand tall x voicing the fact that these extreme weather events is adversely affecting harvesters' and cultivator's requirements and condition to grow/collect medicinal plant species. If these climate impacts continue to grow uncontrolled, then the very plants that helped in evolution of modern human civilization may become extinct or will be devoid of its nutritional/medicinal qualities thereby putting in hold the well being of our future generation in jeopardy. Key words: Climate change, global warming, medicinal plants, secondary metabolites, phenology, genomic expression Session SI Climate Change --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ABSTRACTS 1 SI/L-1 hence, a rational strategy to sequester C must consider all the Role of Shelterbelts in Carbon Sequestration and components of the terrestrial ecosystem. Single tree species Climate Change of Dryland Ecosystems cannot be considered in isolation from other plant species or from soil because of the interactions and interdependencies 1 2 H. Shivanna * and P. Surendra among species in an ecosystem. Likewise, soil management 1 Department of Forest Biology and Tree Improvement, Forestry cannot be separated from plant productivity. Thus a study of Collage, Sirsi, District Uttara Kannada, Karnataka, INDIA, Email: 2 integrative strategy element-ecosystem dynamics is [email protected]; Agricultural Research Station, Sirsi, necessary. Karnataka, INDIA, Email: [email protected] Key words: C-sequestration, Forestry mitigation, Shelterbelt species Forests figure prominently in the climate change negotiations under way in the United Nations Framework SI/L-2 Convention on Climate Change. Forests, in both Advances in Air Pollution and Climate Change industrialized and developing countries are being singled out Impacts on Forests