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RETRACTED: Cytotoxicity and genotoxicity evaluation of polystyrene microplastics on Vicia faba roots
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This article has been retracted due to plagiarism — the cytotoxicity and genotoxicity evaluation of polystyrene microplastics on Vicia faba roots was withdrawn at the request of the editors and corresponding author.
This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (https://www.elsevier.com/about/our-business/policies/article-withdrawal). This article has been retracted at the request of the Editors and Corresponding Author. The authors have plagiarized part of a paper that had already appeared in Environmental and Experimental Botany, 179 (2020) 104227, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envexpbot.2020.104227. One of the conditions of submission of a paper for publication is that authors declare explicitly that their work is original and has not appeared in a publication elsewhere. Re-use of any data should be appropriately cited. As such this article represents a severe abuse of the scientific publishing system. The scientific community takes a very strong view on this matter and apologies are offered to readers of the journal that this was not detected during the submission process.
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