Reviewing the Impact of Vehicular Pollution on Road-Side Plants—Future Perspectives

Manikandan Muthu, Judy Gopal, Doo-Hwan Kim and Iyyakkannu Sivanesan
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Manikandan Muthu: Laboratory of Neo Natural Farming, Chunnampet, Tamil Nadu 603 401, India
Judy Gopal: Laboratory of Neo Natural Farming, Chunnampet, Tamil Nadu 603 401, India
Doo-Hwan Kim: Department of Bioresources and Food Science, Institute of Natural Science and Agriculture, Konkuk University, 1 Hwayang-dong, Gwangjin-gu, Seoul 05029, Korea
Iyyakkannu Sivanesan: Department of Bioresources and Food Science, Institute of Natural Science and Agriculture, Konkuk University, 1 Hwayang-dong, Gwangjin-gu, Seoul 05029, Korea

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 9, 1-14

Abstract: With population explosion, automobiles have also exploded and so has pollution due to vehicular emissions. Road-side plants and highway vegetation are the first targets of these vehicular emissions. This review briefly presents a snapshot of how vehicular emission can affect plants. On the contrary, the positive perspective of how road-side plants may be able to affect and influence the harmful effects of vehicular emissions has also been discussed. Ways and means by which plants can become potential bio indicators of air pollution have also been speculated. The fact that the nanocarbon particulate aspect of automobile pollutants and their interactions with road-side plants and more so on road-side agricultural crops, has not been appropriately investigated has been raised as a key concern. The need to arrive at mitigation methods to identify permanent solutions to these rising concerns has been highlighted.

Keywords: automobile emission; highway/roadside plants; carbon nanoparticles; dust; pollution; air pollution (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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