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Microplastic: Evaluating the Impact on Soil-Microbes and Plant System
Summary
This review examines how microplastics affect soil microbial communities and plant systems in agricultural settings, documenting impacts on soil health, microbial diversity, and crop physiology. As microplastics accumulate in farmland soils through irrigation, sludge application, and plastic mulches, their effects on the soil ecosystem that underpins food production are a growing concern.
The overexploitation of plastics has come with the terrifying universal challenge of white pollution called microplastics (<5mm). The omnipresence, persistence, and transboundary dissemination of these microplastics (MPs) cause a serious threat to the whole ecosystem whether it is aero, aquatic, or terrestrial. However, the global monitoring data of MPs’ impact on the terrestrial ecosystem is far from sufficient, especially, in soil agroecosystems. So, it is vital that we develop a greater understanding of any potential harmful or adverse impacts of these pollutants on agroecosystems. To emphasize the gaps in our understanding of the nature and consequences of MPs in soil and soil-microbes-plant systems, this chapter will combine the currently available information on the presence, sources, and effects of MPs on several components of the agroecosystem, especially emphasizing the deleterious effect on soil, soil- microbes, and plant systems.