microplastic-pollution
Microplastic pollution refers to the widespread accumulation of small synthetic plastic particles in environmental systems, where they persist indefinitely due to their resistance to natural degradation. Plants actively uptake these microplastics through their root systems and translocate them through tissues, potentially disrupting growth, nutrient uptake, and physiological functions. Understanding how plants interact with microplastics is essential for plant science, as it directly impacts soil ecosystem health, agricultural productivity, and the food safety implications of this emerging environmental contaminant.
Nanoplastics interfere with plant-mycorrhizal communication and lim...
Microplastics breaking down in your garden soil are quietly strangling the beneficial fungi that ...
Beyond Microplastics: How Tire Wear Particles Influence Plant Performance.
Every road, parking lot, and driveway near your garden or local park is a source of tire particle...
Nanoplastics in soil and aquatic ecosystems: Sources, impacts, and ...
The fruits and vegetables in your garden may already be absorbing microscopic plastic particles t...
Intercropping strategies to mitigate PLA-Pb stress and enhance legu...
Vegetables and legumes grown in contaminated urban or industrial soils can quietly accumulate lea...
Environmental microplastics: sources, environmental interactions, e...
Microplastics are already turning up inside vegetable roots, garden soil, and the worms that aera...
Long-term localization experiments reveal aging degradation mechani...
Those small plastic-coated fertilizer pellets you spread in your garden or that farmers use on cr...
Fiber to fragment: a review of microplastics from textile industry ...
Microplastic fibers from laundry are landing in your garden soil and the food you grow, quietly a...
Interactions of insects with micro- and nanoplastics: A review.
Insects disappearing from your garden or local park may be quietly choking on plastic pollution —...
