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Pharmaceutical pollution refers to the accumulation of active pharmaceutical ingredients and their metabolites in environmental systems like soil and water. For plant science, this matters because plants can absorb these compounds from their growing media, affecting their physiology, growth, and metabolism while potentially entering food chains through agricultural crops. Understanding how plants interact with and process pharmaceutical contaminants is critical for assessing impacts on crop productivity, plant safety, and broader ecosystem health.

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