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Plant roots amass nanoplastics, finds study
Physics World
2022
Isabelle Dumé
Summary
This brief news item reports on a new analytical technique for quantifying how plants take up plastic nanoparticles from soil, finding that nanoplastics accumulate mainly in roots rather than shoots. The finding has implications for understanding the entry of nanoplastics into food crops.
Plastics accumulate mainly in the roots of a plant – rather than in its shoots – according to a new technique to quantify how plants take up plastic nanoparticles from the soil.