Effects of phenol on the growth of Vigna angularis

Rapid industrialisation since the recent past years has led to the increasing number of pollutions from industrial wastes, with phenol as one of the organic pollutant produced. Phytoremediation is one of the effective techniques available to clean up pollutant in situ by using plants as the main age...

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Main Author: Mustapha, Siti Roslina
Format: Project Paper Report
Language:English
Published: 2015
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/91011/1/FBSB%202015%20130%20-%20IR.pdf
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spelling my.upm.eprints.910112021-10-18T01:33:55Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/91011/ Effects of phenol on the growth of Vigna angularis Mustapha, Siti Roslina Rapid industrialisation since the recent past years has led to the increasing number of pollutions from industrial wastes, with phenol as one of the organic pollutant produced. Phytoremediation is one of the effective techniques available to clean up pollutant in situ by using plants as the main agent to absorb pollutants from targeted sites. Vigna angularis, which is a legume from Fabaceae family, is an annual plant that can be found mainly in East Asia and Himalaya countries such as Japan, and Malaysia. In this study, an experiment was conducted to investigate effects phenol had on V. angularis, and the plant’s ability to absorb phenol contain in 4 L distilled water. Plants were exposed to different concentrations of phenol of 0.04, 0.05, 0.2, 0.3, and 0.4 g/L for 8 days and phenol remaining in the water was also being measured daily by using 4-aminoantipyrene assay method. The observations on changes on morphology of plants were made and followed by determination of rate of phenol degradation by plants. Changes on plants such as yellowing of leaves, changes of colour of roots from white to brown, and stems became droopy were recorded. The results obtained showed that V. angularis was able to tolerate variations of phenol concentrations, and can uptake 100% of phenol in the water for all concentrations with different rate of degaradations, except for in 0.4 g/L phenol. 2015 Project Paper Report NonPeerReviewed text en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/91011/1/FBSB%202015%20130%20-%20IR.pdf Mustapha, Siti Roslina (2015) Effects of phenol on the growth of Vigna angularis. [Project Paper Report]
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description Rapid industrialisation since the recent past years has led to the increasing number of pollutions from industrial wastes, with phenol as one of the organic pollutant produced. Phytoremediation is one of the effective techniques available to clean up pollutant in situ by using plants as the main agent to absorb pollutants from targeted sites. Vigna angularis, which is a legume from Fabaceae family, is an annual plant that can be found mainly in East Asia and Himalaya countries such as Japan, and Malaysia. In this study, an experiment was conducted to investigate effects phenol had on V. angularis, and the plant’s ability to absorb phenol contain in 4 L distilled water. Plants were exposed to different concentrations of phenol of 0.04, 0.05, 0.2, 0.3, and 0.4 g/L for 8 days and phenol remaining in the water was also being measured daily by using 4-aminoantipyrene assay method. The observations on changes on morphology of plants were made and followed by determination of rate of phenol degradation by plants. Changes on plants such as yellowing of leaves, changes of colour of roots from white to brown, and stems became droopy were recorded. The results obtained showed that V. angularis was able to tolerate variations of phenol concentrations, and can uptake 100% of phenol in the water for all concentrations with different rate of degaradations, except for in 0.4 g/L phenol.
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title_short Effects of phenol on the growth of Vigna angularis
title_full Effects of phenol on the growth of Vigna angularis
title_fullStr Effects of phenol on the growth of Vigna angularis
title_full_unstemmed Effects of phenol on the growth of Vigna angularis
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publishDate 2015
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