Pollution Effects • Environmental Pollution
Chemical reactions involving air pollutants create a poisonous gas ozone (O3). Gas Ozone can affect people’s health and can damage vegetation types and some animal life too.
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The Ministry of the Environment monitors air quality at 33 stations across the province. The sites are set in both urban and rural settings and monitor the 6 most common air pollutants: sulfur dioxide, ozone, nitrogen dioxide, total reduced sulfur compounds, carbon monoxide and suspended particles. The sites are monitored in real-time on an hourly basis. Pollutant concentrations are converted into an Air Quality Index (AQI) with a lower AQI translating into cleaner air. AQI values above 50 can cause crop injury.
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Sugars created in photosynthesis can be later converted by the plant to starch for storage, or it can be combined with other sugar molecules to form specialized carbohydrates such as , or it can be combined with other nutrients such as nitrogen, phosphorus, and sulfur, to build complex molecules such as and .

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Air pollution injury to plants can be evident in several ways. Injury to foliage may be visible in a short time and appear as necrotic lesions (dead tissue), or it can develop slowly as a yellowing or chlorosis of the leaf. There may be a reduction in growth of various portions of a plant. Plants may be killed outright, but they usually do not succumb until they have suffered recurrent injury.
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Ozone is the main pollutant in the oxidant smog complex. Its effect on plants was first observed in the Los Angeles area in 1944. Since then, ozone injury to vegetation has been reported and documented in many areas throughout North America, including the southwestern and central regions of Ontario. Throughout the growing season, particularly July and August, ozone levels vary significantly. Periods of high ozone are associated with regional southerly air flows that are carried across the lower Great Lakes after passing over many urban and industrialised areas of the United States. Localized, domestic ozone levels also contribute to the already high background levels. Injury levels vary annually and white bean, which are particularly sensitive, are often used as an indicator of damage. Other sensitive species include cucumber, grape, green bean, lettuce, onion, potato, radish, rutabagas, spinach, sweet corn, tobacco and tomato. Resistant species include endive, pear and apricot.