Effect of Ni and Cr plating industry effluents on seed germination and seedling growth of Pissum sativum c.v. azaad

Ni and Cr are heavy metal pollutants. These toxic heavy metals are not needed by the plants. So it was of interest to study the influence of the heavy metals on germination and seedling growth. Seeds of test plants were sterilized with 0.1% HgCl solution and washed with distilled water. Seed were allowed to germination on filter paper moistened with different site effluents Ni and Cr separately. Is was reported that above concentration of both the heavy metal (Ni and Cr) was inhibitory for seedling growth of Pissum sativum c.v. azaad .However it was observed that Crwas more inhibitory than Ni.