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Microplastics: toxicity and tolerance in plants
Microplastics2024
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Noreen Khalid,
Noreen Khalid,
Noreen Khalid,
Noreen Khalid,
Noreen Khalid,
Hira Azhar,
Hira Azhar,
Hira Azhar,
Hira Azhar,
Wajiha Sarfraz,
Ujala Ejaz,
Ujala Ejaz,
Zonaira Qaiser,
Zonaira Qaiser,
Hira Azhar,
Hira Azhar,
Hira Azhar,
Zonaira Qaiser,
Muhammad Aqeel,
Noreen Khalid,
Noreen Khalid,
Noreen Khalid,
Shujaul Mulk Khan,
Shujaul Mulk Khan,
Zonaira Qaiser,
Zonaira Qaiser,
Zonaira Qaiser,
Zonaira Qaiser,
Muhammad Aqeel,
Muhammad Aqeel,
Muhammad Aqeel,
Muhammad Aqeel,
Muhammad Aqeel,
Muhammad Aqeel,
Muhammad Aqeel,
Muhammad Aqeel,
Muhammad Aqeel,
Muhammad Aqeel,
Muhammad Aqeel,
Muhammad Aqeel,
Muhammad Aqeel,
Muhammad Aqeel,
Noreen Khalid,
Noreen Khalid,
Ali Noman
Wajiha Sarfraz,
Zonaira Qaiser,
Wajiha Sarfraz,
Wajiha Sarfraz,
Wajiha Sarfraz,
Noreen Khalid,
Noreen Khalid,
Noreen Khalid,
Noreen Khalid,
Noreen Khalid,
Noreen Khalid,
Hira Azhar,
Ali Noman
Ali Noman
Ali Noman
Ali Noman
Ali Noman
Muhammad Aqeel,
Muhammad Aqeel,
Zonaira Qaiser,
Hira Azhar,
Zarrin Fatima Rizvi,
Noreen Khalid,
Zarrin Fatima Rizvi,
Noreen Khalid,
Shujaul Mulk Khan,
Muhammad Aqeel,
Ujala Ejaz,
Ujala Ejaz,
Noreen Khalid,
Zarrin Fatima Rizvi,
Ali Noman
Muhammad Aqeel,
Zarrin Fatima Rizvi,
Wajiha Sarfraz,
Ali Noman
Wajiha Sarfraz,
Wajiha Sarfraz,
Noreen Khalid,
Zarrin Fatima Rizvi,
Ali Noman
Ali Noman
Zarrin Fatima Rizvi,
Muhammad Aqeel,
Ali Noman
Noreen Khalid,
Ali Noman
Ali Noman
Zarrin Fatima Rizvi,
Muhammad Aqeel,
Muhammad Aqeel,
Noreen Khalid,
Wajiha Sarfraz,
Noreen Khalid,
Noreen Khalid,
Zarrin Fatima Rizvi,
Zarrin Fatima Rizvi,
Zarrin Fatima Rizvi,
Ujala Ejaz,
Noreen Khalid,
Noreen Khalid,
Wajiha Sarfraz,
Ujala Ejaz,
Muhammad Aqeel,
Noreen Khalid,
Zarrin Fatima Rizvi,
Shujaul Mulk Khan,
Muhammad Aqeel,
Ali Noman
Ali Noman
Ali Noman
Noreen Khalid,
Noreen Khalid,
Ali Noman
Noreen Khalid,
Ali Noman
Ali Noman
Ali Noman
Summary
Researchers reviewed how microplastics harm both land plants and water plants by disrupting their growth, nutrient uptake, and genetic function, while also triggering the plants' own defense systems in response. Understanding how plants tolerate microplastic exposure is important because contaminated crops could eventually affect human health through the food chain.
Microplastics (MPs) have emerged as one of the major environmental pollutants currently. MPs (<5mm) being very tiny toxic particles coming from various anthropogenic sources impact both terrestrial and aquatic plant species by upsetting the physiological, anatomical, morphological, and genetic processes of plants. MPs in aquatic ecosystems have been reported to cause toxicity in aquatic plants and enter the food chain. Similarly, several terrestrial plants especially agricultural plant species have also been affected by MPs which may ultimately affect humans. However, this MP toxicity activates plants’ defense mechanism and induces tolerance to cope with the adverse effects caused by MPs in plants. This chapter aims to highlight the reported toxicity of MPs by previous research in both terrestrial and aquatic plants, and their tolerance and defense mechanisms. Affected physiological, anatomical, morphological, and genetic aspects of plants will be discussed in this chapter which will provide new summarized research literature for future researchers to contribute more advanced conclusions.