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Insight of Environmental Microplastics Responsive to Agricultural Ecosystem
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This review summarizes how microplastics enter and affect agricultural ecosystems, including soil, crops, and farm animals. Microplastics can alter soil structure, inhibit plant growth, and accumulate in food crops, raising concerns about human dietary exposure. The authors highlight gaps in knowledge about long-term agricultural impacts and call for more field-based research.
With the investigation of Microplastics' distribution in the environment, and the experiment of biotoxicity exposure, the pollution of microplastics has become one of the hot environmental issues. A large number of studies have shown that microplastics have a great impact on the terrestrial ecosystem. In this paper, the source of microplastics in soil environment and agricultural system, and the reaction of microplastics pollution to plants are reviewed in combination with the research papers published in recent years.
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This review examines how microplastics enter and move through agricultural soil ecosystems, affecting soil properties, nutrient cycling, and the organisms that live in and depend on healthy soil. Researchers found that microplastics can alter key biogeochemical processes and interact with co-existing pollutants like heavy metals and pesticides, potentially compounding their harmful effects. The study highlights the need for prevention and control strategies as microplastic contamination of farmland becomes an increasingly recognized environmental and potential human health concern.
Microplastics in Soil–Plant Systems: Current Knowledge, Research Gaps, and Future Directions for Agricultural Sustainability
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This review summarizes current knowledge about how microplastics affect agricultural soils and the plants growing in them, including changes to soil structure, nutrient availability, and root zone biology. Understanding how microplastics move through the soil-plant system is critical because contaminated crops are a major pathway for these particles to reach the human diet.
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This review provides a comprehensive look at how micro and nanoplastics affect agricultural soil ecosystems, covering their sources, movement through soil, and impacts on soil organisms and crop growth. The authors found that microplastics can alter soil structure, reduce beneficial microbial activity, and affect plant nutrient uptake. These changes to farmland soils could ultimately threaten food security and introduce microplastics into the human food supply.
Accumulation of Microplastics in Agroecosystems and Its Effects on Terrestrial Plants: A Short Review
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This review examines how microplastics accumulate in agricultural ecosystems and affect terrestrial plants, finding evidence of uptake into plant tissues, disruption of germination and growth, and potential entry into the food chain through crops. The authors highlight significant knowledge gaps regarding microplastic sources, pathways, and long-term impacts in agricultural soils.
Impact of microplastics in agriculture
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This review paper pulls together existing research on how tiny plastic particles (microplastics) end up in farm soil — often through fertilizers, irrigation water, and plastic mulches used to grow crops. These plastics can harm soil health, disrupt nutrients, and affect the small creatures that keep soil fertile, which may ultimately impact the crops and livestock that end up on our plates. The findings matter because they suggest microplastics could be quietly working their way into our food supply, though more research is needed to understand exactly how this affects human health.
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