RESEARCH ARTICLE
Biological Monitoring of Air Pollutants and Its Influence on Human Beings
Shihong Cen*
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2015Volume: 9
First Page: 219
Last Page: 223
Publisher ID: TOBEJ-9-219
DOI: 10.2174/1874120701509010219
Article History:
Received Date: 10/04/2015Revision Received Date: 20/05/2015
Acceptance Date: 15/06/2015
Electronic publication date: 31/8/2015
Collection year: 2015
open-access license: This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode), which permits unrestricted, noncommercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited.
Abstract
Monitoring air pollutants via plants is an economic, convenient and credible method compared with the traditional ways. Plants show different damage symptoms to different air pollutants, which can be used to determine the species of air pollutants. Besides, pollutants mass concentration scope can be estimated by the damage extent of plants and the span of polluted time. Based on the domestic and foreign research, this paper discusses the principles, mechanism, advantages and disadvantages of plant-monitoring, and exemplifies plenty of such plants and the minimum mass concentration and pollution time of the plants showing damage symptoms. Finally, this paper introduces the effects of air pollutants on immune function of the human body, such as decrease of the body's immune function, decline of lung function, respiratory and circulatory system changes, inducing and promoting human allergic diseases, respiratory diseases and other diseases.