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Compared were the number of mitochondria and chloroplasts in the chlorenchyma cells of pine needles (Pinus sylvestris), birch leaves (Betula pubescens), and shrub leaves (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi, Vaccinium vitis-idaea, V. myrtillus, V. uliginosum). Included also were herbaceous plant leaves Campanula rotundifolia, Cornus suecica, Potentilla erecta and Solidago lapponica. These plants were growing 10 km (severely polluted area) and 65 km (background area) south (SSW) of the ‘Severonickel’ smelter complex (Monchegorsk, Kola peninsula), where the dominating gaseous atmospheric pollutant is SO2. Comparison between plants of polluted and unpolluted areas was made using electron microscopy on intact chlorenchyma cells. Morphometric analysis showed that the chloroplast numbers in the mesophyll cells did not depend on the pollution level. The mitochondria numbers did not differ significantly in leaf cells of the deciduous and herbaceous plants. However, it is considerably higher in evergreen species of the damaged area. The conclusion is that the increase of the mitochondria numbers is the adaptative response of the evergreen plants to atmospheric pollution.
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Kravkina, I.M. (1997). Structural adaptation of the leaf chlorenchyma to stress condition in the Kola peninsula plants. In: Tigerstedt, P.M.A. (eds) Adaptation in Plant Breeding. Developments in Plant Breeding, vol 4. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8806-5_23
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