Climate change has been regarded as a threat to the human species on the earth.
Greenhouse gasses are leading to increased temperatures on Earth besides impacting the …

Medicinal plants, like others, are affected by biotic as well as abiotic stress. The latter
category includes a variety of stressors such as drought, flooding, salinity, temperature …

To investigate whether leaves of plane trees (Platanus orientalis) are damaged by traffic
pollution, trees from a megacity (Mashhad, Iran) and a rural area were investigated. Soil and …

Several biotic and abiotic stresses affect plant growth, development and crop productivity. To
cope up all these stresses, plant develops certain efficient strategies to avoid or tolerate the …

Plants growing in the industrial areas and near the major roads absorb the pollutants at their
foliar surface. In this paper, histological changes induced by air pollutants (from a cement …

Since the dawn of civilization, plants have been used throughout the world as a source of
traditional “herbal” medicines. Compared with modern medicines, herbal medicines have …

An increasing number of studies have focused on the response and adaptation of plants to
urbanization by comparing differences in leaf functional traits between urban and rural sites …

This study investigates responses in the leaf anatomy of Black Locust (Robinia
pseudoacacia L.) to the atmospheric pollutants, SO 2, NO 2 and O 3 and climate in Tehran …

Heavy metal (HM) contamination resulting from industrialization and urbanization during the
Anthropocene along with plant invasion can severely threaten the growth and adaptation of …

Urban trees reduce CO 2 and pollutants that represent a risk for human health in cities. In
this work, we assessed the potential effect of heavy metals and environmental variables on …