Increasing the tolerance to copper of ornamental plants and lawn grasses in urban ecosystems

Abstract

The plants are an important part of the urban ecosystem. Plants help to reduce the level of pollution and the effect of adverse environmental factors on urban ecosystems. Among the most dangerous pollutants for plants are copper ions. Copper is one of the main pollutants of urban soil. Copper ions significantly reduce the quality of ornamental plants. One approach to solve this problem is to create plants resistant to adverse environmental factors using cell selection. This method is hardly ever used in urban greening. The aim of the work is to produce plants resistant to copper ions. It was developed technologies to obtain ornamental plants resistant to copper. These plants have substantially increased their resistance to copper. Plants Festuca rubra were resistant to high levels of copper contamination and can grow on the basis of the level of pollution along roads, in residential areas. Plants Brachycome iberidifolia proved to be resistant to the average level of pollution of copper and can grow in parks and squares.