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Impact of Microplastics and Nanoplastics on Plant Health and Development
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Researchers review the emerging evidence on how microplastics accumulate in agricultural soils and affect plant health and development, highlighting that while aquatic impacts are well documented, the effects on terrestrial food crops and soil-plant systems remain poorly understood.
In recent years, anthropogenic activities have emerged many persistent pollutants to the ecosystem as microplastics. Several studies has been explained the effect of microplastics on aquatic system, but scarcely applied on the agricultural systems. Microplastics...
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