Abstract
Plants grown under urban environmental conditions are exposed to different anthropogenic stress factors: air pollutants e.g. SO2, NO, NO2, photochemical smog, photooxidants, acid rains, mineral soil deficiency induced by acid rains, heavy metal load, enhanced UV-B radiation. Photosynthetic apparatus of plants is sensitive to stress conditions caused by anthropogenic and natural stress factors [1,2]. Chlorophyll fluorescence measurements provide a powerful non-destructive method for fast outdoor screening of trees. Some parameters of chlorophyll fluorescence can be widely used to characterize photosynthetic activity of a whole plant in vivo [3]. Phelloderm cells of bark of woody plants containing a lot of chlorophyll demonstrate photosynthetic activity. Application of chlorophyll fluorescence measured on intact shoots of trees make it possible to monitor urban woody plantations since early spring till late autumn in many east and west European parts of Russia. The goal of this work was to conduct reliable measurements of chlorophyll fluorescence parameters on one-year-old shoots of trees for stress detection on plants under urban conditions.
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