Proximate Analysis and Heavy Metal Detection in Aquatic Plants of River Satluj, District Kasur

During last few decades the concern over the studies on some contaminants like, fertilizers, pesticides and trace metals and their impacts on environmental compartments such as soil, plants and water have attained a great significance. The lithogenic source is the reason of the presence of trace metals in environment and sometimes the concentration of metal fluxes in environment is increased by anthropogenic influences. The industrial activities are mainly included in the anthropogenic influences (Yanina et al. 2015). The aquatic plants is a highly diverse group of plants around the globe. The community of the aquatic plants have a vast and diverse range of macrophytic organisms in it. The ferns, the mosses, the angiosperms, some macroalgae of freshwater and the liverworts have been collectively described as the aquatic plants. Aquatic plants occurs in the seasonally or permanently wet surroundings. In most of the wet lands, the aquatic plants have a remarkable population sizes (Lacoul and Freedman 2006; The growth rate of aquatic plants is very rapid in different aquatic bodies like waterways and lakes all over the world (Muhammed et al. 2012). The aquatic plants includes submerged, emergent and floating plants. These plants are a good source of food both for humans as well as other aquatic and terrestrial organisms. Some edible aquatic plants are a good source of proteins and nutrients. During the previous few years, the research for the inclusion of aquatic plants in the animal feed is going upgraded day-by-day (Tacon et al. 2009).