Phytostabilisation of tailing dams: a quantification of physiological and biological responses in plants.

ABSTRACT

Effect of unamended and variously amended tailings of Rajpura-Dariba mines, Udaipur, India was studied on certain physiological and biochemical responses of plants. Plants grown in unamended tailings, showed reduction in shoot-root length, shoot-root dry weight, chlorophyll content and an increase in total phenol contents and peroxidase activity. Ameliorations resulted in an increase in growth and chlorophyll contents, a decrease in total phenol contents and reduction in peroxidase activity in the test plants.