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Microplastics from biodegradable plastic bags alter soil properties and trigger stress response in sunflowers
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This is a duplicate data deposit entry for the same biodegradable plastic bag microplastics dataset (also listed as ID 2419), providing raw data for the study published in Environmental Pollution examining how microplastics from biodegradable bags alter soil properties and trigger stress responses in sunflowers.
The data set provides the raw data for the paper entitled: Microplastics from biodegradable plastic bags alter soil properties and trigger stress response in sunflowers, published in Environmental pollution. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2025.127618 and the presentations of this work at conferences.
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