Cultivated plants in monitoring of water quality from the canals used in agriculture | Gajene biljke u monitoringu kvaliteta kanalske vode koja se koristi u poljoprivredi
2011
Miletić, V., Poljoprivredni fakultet, Novi Sad (Serbia) | Gvozdenac, S. (mentor), Poljoprivredni fakultet, Novi Sad (Serbia)
Water and sediment contamination represents a world wide problem and refers to drinking water and water that is used for irrigation. One of the means of monitoring water quality is using bioindicators. For agriculture region as ours, the most suitable species are cultivated plants. The aim of this work was to assess the quality of water from the Great Backa canal (Serbia) that is intensively exploited in agriculture, using barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) and cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) as test plants. Distilled water was the control variant. Plants were grown in sterile sand (Regulation of the quality of seed of agricultural plants, Official gazette 58/2002). Germination (%), root and shoot length (cm) were measured. Data was analyzed using Dunnet test, for confidence interval 95% in statistical software SPSS 17. Barley seed germination in the control was 99% and in water sample 94% and both values were at the same level significance. Germination of cucumber seed was 93% in the control and 89% in water from the canal, with no significant differences, also. Water from GBC inhibited root length of barley for 3% while the shoot length was stimulated for 0.2% compared to the control, although differences were not significant. Water from GBC did not affect cucumber root length, while shoot was 7.75% longer compared to control, but both vales were at the same level of significance. Results indicate that water from GBC did not significantly inhibit or stimulate growth of barley and cucumber, therefore it can be used for irrigation of these crops.
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