Table 1 Previous elementary work on exposure of CBs on different plants
S.N. | Plant species | Effect of Chemical released by Cigarette Butts | Â |
|---|---|---|---|
1 | Glycine max | Reduction in vessels diameter, ylem and phloem in vascular bundles | (Weryszko-Chmielewska & Chwil, 2005) |
2 | Pisum sativum | Reduction observed in biomass, root/shoot ratio and leaf area | (Çimrin et al., 2007) |
3 | Cicer arietinum | Reduction in number of leaves | (Das et al., 2012) |
4 | Arabidopsis thaliana | Reduction in lipid peroxidation, reactive oxygen species, GSH and ascorbate which lead to cell death | (Zhao & Yi, 2014) |
5 | Lolium perenne | Initial growth being stunted | (Green et al., 2019) [35] |
6 | Brasicca napus | Reduce root length due to the exposure of PAHs | (Zhao & Yi, 2014) |
7 | Gossypium hirsutum and Catharanthus roseus | Low photo synthesis due to reduction in chlorophyll a and b and plant is in stress | (Iori et al., 2017) |
8 | Triticum aestivum | Seedling shows genotoxic effect, growth retardation and cellular damage observed | (Abbas et al., 2017) |
9 | Allium cepa | Cytotoxic, genotoxic and mutagenic effect | (Montalvão et al., 2019) [23] |
10 | Suaeda salsa | High concentration produce adverse effect on the growth | (Xu et al., 2020) |