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Title of Thesis |
| Author(s) Audil Rashid |
| Institute/University/Department Details Department of Biological Sciences/ Quaid-i-Azam University Islamabad |
| Session 2005 |
| Subject Biological Sciences |
| Number of Pages 2005 |
| Keywords (Extracted from title, table of contents and abstract of thesis) heavy metal contamination, soil contamination, mycorrhizae, metalliferous soils, mycorrhizal fungi |
Abstract |
| Download Full Thesis |  6674.61 KB |
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| 1 | 0 | Contents | 326.96 KB |
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| 2 | 1 | Introduction | 1 | 436.08 KB |
| 1.1 | Soil Contamination | 2 | ||
| 1.2 | Metal In Environment | 5 | ||
| 1.3 | Phytosociology Of Metal Contaminated Soils | 8 | ||
| 1.4 | Phytoextraction Of Metals | 9 | ||
| 1.5 | Mycorrhizae In Contaminated Environment | 10 | ||
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| 3 | 2 | Review Of Literature | 13 | 688.3 KB |
| 2.1 | Metals In Soil | 13 | ||
| 2.2 | Vegetation Ecology Of Metalliferous Soils | 18 | ||
| 2.3 | Response Of Plants To Heavy Metals | 20 | ||
| 2.4 | Mycorrhizal Fungi And Phytoaccumulation | 23 | ||
| 2.5 | Phytoremediation Approach | 25 | ||
| 2.6 | Research Objectives | 30 | ||
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| 4 | 3 | Materials And Methods | 31 | 356.46 KB |
| 3.1 | Description Of Sites | 31 | ||
| 3.2 | Soil Sampling | 36 | ||
| 3.3 | Plant Tissues Analysis | 39 | ||
| 3.4 | Plant Sampling | 38 | ||
| 3.5 | Soil Analysis | 38 | ||
| 3.6 | Plant Tissue Analysis | 39 | ||
| 3.7 | Mycorrhizal Assessment | 39 | ||
| 3.8 | Statistical Analysis | 40 | ||
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| 5 | 4 | Results | 42 | 2458.63 KB |
| 4.1 | Soil Heavy Metal Analyses | 47 | ||
| 4.2 | Principal Components Analysis | 47 | ||
| 4.3 | Correlation Analysis | 59 | ||
| 4.4 | Ordination And Gradient Analysis | 65 | ||
| 4.5 | Plant Tissue Analysis | 76 | ||
| 4.6 | Bioconcentration Factor | 100 | ||
| 4.7 | Top Metal Accumulators | 101 | ||
| 4.8 | Soil-Plant Metal Correlation | 101 | ||
| 4.9 | Mycorrhizal Assessment | 104 | ||
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| 6 | 5 | Discussion | 123 | 1076.98 KB |
| 5.1 | Behaviour Of Metals In Soil | 123 | ||
| 5.2 | Phytosociological Trends | 129 | ||
| 5.3 | Response Of Plants To Heavy Metals | 134 | ||
| 5.4 | Phytoaccmulation Strategies | 137 | ||
| 5.5 | Role Of Am Fungi In Plant-Metal Uptake | 143 | ||
| 5.6 | Limitations | 148 | ||
| 5.7 | Conclusion | 150 | ||
| 5.8 | Future Directions | 153 | ||
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| 7 | 6 | References | 182 | 1573.47 KB |
| 6.1 | Appendices | 182-204 | ||
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