A host of urgent issues would fill their agenda, when world scientists and academiafrom different nations meet in Lucknow for the “Fourth International Conference on Plantsand Environmental Pollution” (ICPEP-4). Among the pressing problems to be debatedwould be global climate change, freshwater, dwindling forests, biodiversity losses, GMfood, emergent ecological disturbances on plants, environmental issues and other factors inenvironment and plant relation.This “ABSTRACT BOOK' is a compilation of five hundred forty-nine abstracts ondifferent environmental aspects, from renowned scientists having long working experiencein their corresponding field of expertise. The volume elucidates the plant-pollutantrelationship in a manner that defines not only the drastic effects of pollutants on plants butconcomitantly highlights the hitherto less focused areas namely phytotoxicity, phytoremediation and GM Food, Waste/water management, stress tolerant bioaestheticdevelopment, thus concentrating more on plant than the pollutant.The abstracts included in this volume are those, which were received within prescribed date and found suitable for publication. All abstracts were peer-reviewed for acceptance and then partitioned in different sessions for Oral and Poster presentation. Manyabstracts were not in desired formats as well as were long. Abridgement of such abstracts has been done with care to include significant points. Late abstracts have been printed but un-indexed and are appended. The basic purpose of this abstract book is to evaluate, identify theknowledge gaps and provide direction for future research areas of environmental problemsand consequent changes and to develop desired management protocols.We express our deep sense of gratitude to Dr. C.S. Nautiyal, Director NBRI and Dr.K.C. Gupta, Director IITR, for their moral and material support. We thank Drs., Dr. P. Nath,D.V. Amla, B.P. Singh, K.J. Ahmad, S.C. Sharma and P. Chandra for their encouragementand valuable suggestions to structure this book. We are indebted to our contributors whodespite their various commitments acceded to our request to share their valuable expertise.Thanks are due to the Scientific Program Committee for categorizing the abstractsand editing them. We are also thankful to staff of Eco-auditing Group for their co-operationin various ways.We are also thankful to the various sponsoring agencies for financial support, whichmade this publication successful. The publication plan finally crystallized through theefforts of M/S Maruti Scanners and their team, we sincerely thank all these people.-Publication CommitteeICPEP-4
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