{"id":28666,"date":"2018-10-24T14:13:32","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T08:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=28666"},"modified":"2018-10-24T14:13:32","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T08:43:32","slug":"toxic-air-is-causing-malnutrition-in-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/toxic-air-is-causing-malnutrition-in-trees\/","title":{"rendered":"Toxic air is causing malnutrition in trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/energy-and-environment\/toxic-air-is-causing-malnutrition-in-trees\/article24255567.ece\">Toxic air is causing malnutrition in trees<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>News:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Air pollution is causing malnutrition in Trees as per the new study published in the Nature.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong><u>Important facts:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2.The study examined 40,000 roots from 13,000 soil samples at 137 forest sites in 20 European countries to determine the fungi\u2019s tolerance to pollution.<\/p>\n<p>3.The key highlights of the study are given below:<\/p>\n<p>a)\u00a0 Mycorrhizal fungi is hosted by the trees in their roots to receive nutrients from the soil.<\/p>\n<p>b) These fungi provide essential nutrients like nitrogen, phosphorous and potassium from soil in exchange for carbon from the tree.<\/p>\n<p>c)This plant-fungal symbiotic relationship is crucial for the health of the tree.<\/p>\n<p>d) However, high levels of the nutrition elements like nitrogen and phosphorus in the mycorrhizae changes them to act as pollutants rather than nutrients, the findings showed.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Sign of malnutrition:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It can be seen in the form of discoloured leaves and excessive falling of leaves.<\/li>\n<li>There is an alarming trend of tree malnutrition across Europe, which leaves forests vulnerable to pets, disease, and climate change.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><u>Reasons<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Ecosystem changes are negatively affecting the tree health.<\/li>\n<li>Air pollution impacts trees by harming fungi that is important for providing mineral nutrients to tree roots.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Suggestions:<\/p>\n<p>4. The researchers suggested that the results should be used to design new studies into the link between pollution, soil, mycorrhizae, and tree growth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toxic air is causing malnutrition in trees News: Air pollution is causing malnutrition in Trees as per the new study published in the Nature. Important facts: 2.The study examined 40,000 roots from 13,000 soil samples at 137 forest sites in 20 European countries to determine the fungi\u2019s tolerance to pollution. 3.The key highlights of the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/toxic-air-is-causing-malnutrition-in-trees\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Toxic air is causing malnutrition in trees<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704911281},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}