Response of Two Crop plants to Dust Deposition

This study was conducted in the green house at college of Science-University of Salahhadin - Erbil, to study the effect of artificial dust deposition on the growth and development of two plants Triticum aestivum L. (wheat) and Pisum sativum L. (garden pea) during 2013. Results indicated that the dust deposition have great effect on the plant height, leaf area, number of leaves, shoot dry weight, spike length of wheat, length of pod of pea, total chlorophyll content, proline, carbohydrate, water content of shoot and number of closed stomata