Heavy metal accumulation by roadside vegetation and implications for pollution control.

Vehicular emissions cause heavy metal pollution and exert negative impacts on environment and roadside vegetation. Wild plants growing along roadsides are capable of absorbing considerable amounts of heavy metals; thus, could be helpful in reducing heavy metal pollution. Therefore, current study inf...

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Main Authors: Rubina Altaf, Sikandar Altaf, Mumtaz Hussain, Rahmat Ullah Shah, Rehmat Ullah, Muhammad Ihsan Ullah, Abdul Rauf, Mohammad Javed Ansari, Sulaiman Ali Alharbi, Saleh Alfarraj, Rahul Datta
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0249147