Study on potential aspect of an ornamental plant - Syngonium podophyllum (Schott) as a phytoremidiator on environmental pollution: A Short Review

Abstract

Leeba Balan and Sriram Chandrasekaran

Environmental pollution is a globally faced problem by which the humans are facing various issues directly or indirectly. This is a long-term consequence which are created by both developed countries and developing countries. The stability of the ecosystem has been declined every year and it is evident by the loss of vegetation, quality of the air, ground level water contamination and extinct and dumping excessive amount of harmful chemicals without proper degradation. Due to these factors, serious threats have been evolved all over the world faced by all living organisms. Now, people are greatly focusing on green remediation, to remove or treat the hazardous materials using plants. Remediation with the usage of plants and phytoplanktons plays an important role as they are user friendly, cost effective and can be implemented at faster rate. Among the plants used for the study, ornamental plants plays a major role in the removal of pollutants and cleaning up of the environment.

Syngonium podophyllum (Schott), commonly called as arrowhead plant is an ornamental plant has the ability to remove benzene, toluene, formaldehyde and xylene gases and has been approved as air purifier by researchers at NASA. The whole plant is found to be poisonous to humans but have the capability to remove toxins from air by cleaning air. Hence, the review study is focused on the ability of plants to remove indoor pollutants harmful for mankind.

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