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ClearMicroplastics in the agricultural soils: Pollution behavior and subsequent effects
This review summarizes existing research on how microplastics accumulate in farmland through fertilizers, irrigation, plastic mulch, and atmospheric fallout. Microplastics change soil structure, harm beneficial microbes, and can be taken up by crops, moving through the food chain to humans. The authors emphasize that more research is needed to understand the long-term health risks of eating food grown in microplastic-contaminated soil.
A Systematic Review on Emission, Accumulation, Mechanism, and Toxicity Perspective of Micro‐Nanoplastics in the Soil–Plant Nexus
This systematic review examines how micro- and nanoplastics enter soil, accumulate in plants, and move through the soil-plant system. The research shows that microplastics alter soil properties, affect plant growth, and can be taken up by crop roots and transported to edible plant parts. This is a direct concern for human health because it means microplastics in agricultural soil may end up in the fruits and vegetables people consume.
Nanoplastics and Microplastics in Agricultural Systems: Effects on Plants and Implications for Human Consumption
This review summarizes existing research on how nanoplastics and microplastics enter agricultural soil through irrigation, plastic mulch, and sewage sludge, then accumulate in crops that people eat. The particles can also carry other harmful substances like pesticides and heavy metals into plants, raising concerns about long-term health effects from chronic dietary exposure.
Fate, Transport Pathways, and Accumulation of Microplastics Agricultural Soil and Their Interaction with Agrochemicals
This book chapter reviews the sources, transport pathways, and accumulation dynamics of microplastics in agricultural soils and food systems, examining how plastic particles move from field to fork and what the implications are for food safety and human dietary exposure.
Behavior of Microplastics and Nanoplasticsin Farmland Soil Environment and Mechanismsof Interaction with Plants
This review summarizes how microplastics and nanoplastics behave in farmland soil and how they interact with crop plants. Nanoplastics are especially concerning because they can travel through plant roots and move via internal transport systems to reach leaves, fruits, and even seeds. The review highlights that microplastic-contaminated soil could lead to plastic particles entering the human food chain through the crops we eat, though more long-term studies are needed to fully understand the risks.
The environmental journey of micro- and nanoplastics: fate, transport, and toxicity
This review traces the journey of micro- and nanoplastics through the environment, from their sources in textiles and personal care products to their transport through water and soil systems. The authors highlight major gaps in knowledge, including the lack of standardized detection methods for the smallest particles and insufficient long-term data on human health effects. The review calls for better risk assessment to protect food safety and human health from microplastic contamination.
From soils to edible tissues: Critical assessment of techniques for detecting micro- and nanoplastics in agroecosystems
This review evaluates analytical techniques for detecting micro- and nanoplastics across the agricultural soil-plant-food pathway, from field sampling through polymer identification. The authors critically assess detection limits, recovery biases, and method suitability for complex agricultural matrices at each stage of the food production chain. The study highlights that standardized, validated methods are urgently needed to reliably track plastic contamination from farm soils into edible plant tissues.
Fate of plastic nanoparticles (PNPs) in soil and plant systems: Current status & research gaps
This review examined the fate of plastic nanoparticles in soil and plant systems, highlighting how nanoparticles can be taken up by plant roots, translocated through tissues, and potentially enter the food chain, while identifying critical research gaps in toxicity assessment.
Micro and nano plastics (MNPs) in agricultural soils: challenges for food security and environmental health
This review examined how micro- and nanoplastics enter agricultural soils through sources like plastic mulch, wastewater irrigation, and sewage sludge, reaching concentrations of up to 10,000 particles per kilogram. The study found that these plastics impair plant nutrient absorption, photosynthesis, and growth, while also carrying toxic pollutants that can transfer through the food chain to humans.
Micro/nanoplastics: a potential threat to crops
This review examines micro- and nanoplastic contamination in agricultural soil and water, summarizing sources, adsorption onto microplastics, uptake pathways into crops, effects on plant growth and physiology, and current detection and removal approaches, while highlighting the limited data on nanoplastic transport in plants.
The Fate and Risk of Micro- and Nanoplastics in Terrestrial Ecosystems
This research review summarizes what scientists currently know about tiny plastic particles (called micro- and nanoplastics) that contaminate soil and land environments. The study found that while researchers have learned a lot about plastic pollution, there are still major gaps in understanding how these particles move through soil, affect plants and animals, and potentially reach humans through food. This matters because these microscopic plastics could enter our food supply through crops grown in contaminated soil, but scientists don't yet fully understand the health risks.
Microplastics and Their Effect in Horticultural Crops: Food Safety and Plant Stress
This review examined how microplastics and nanoplastics accumulate in agricultural soils and enter the food chain through edible plants and animals, concluding that plastic contamination represents a multi-pathway food safety risk requiring coordinated regulatory and agronomic responses.
Exposure pathways, environmental processes and risks of micro (nano) plastics to crops and feasible control strategies in agricultural regions
Researchers review how micro- and nanoplastics enter agricultural soils and the atmosphere, move through the rhizosphere and phyllosphere, and are taken up by crops, synthesizing the key biotic and abiotic factors that govern their bioavailability and identifying research gaps needed to develop effective pollution control strategies.
Microplastics and nanoplastics in the soil-plant nexus: Sources, uptake, and toxicity
This review examines how microplastics and nanoplastics accumulate in agricultural soils from plastic products and affect the soil-plant system. Researchers found that nanoplastics can be taken up by plant roots, cause oxidative stress, and negatively affect crop growth. The findings raise concerns about food safety since these particles may carry co-contaminants into the food chain.
Hazards Associated with Micro/Nano Plastics in Agricultural Soils
This review examines the hazards of micro- and nanoplastic contamination in agricultural soils, where plastics enter through mulching films, irrigation with contaminated water, and fertilizer application. The authors discuss how these particles can alter soil structure, affect microbial communities, and potentially transfer into crops that humans consume. The study highlights that agricultural soil contamination with microplastics is an underrecognized risk to both ecosystem health and food safety.
Do Microplastics and Nanoplastics Pose Risks to Biota in Agricultural Ecosystems?
This review examines the growing presence of micro- and nanoplastics in agricultural soils, estimated at over 0.5 megatons annually. Researchers found that these particles can have varied effects on soil properties, microorganisms, invertebrates, and plants, depending on polymer type, additives, and exposure duration. The study highlights that agricultural soils serve as major reservoirs for plastic pollution and calls for standardized research methods and regulatory guidelines to address the risks to food web safety.
The measurement of food safety and security risks associated with micro- and nanoplastic pollution
Researchers reviewed how micro- and nanoplastic pollution enters the human food chain through agricultural systems, raising concerns for food safety and security. They identified major gaps in our ability to assess the risks of plastic contamination in food and feed sources. The study calls for interdisciplinary approaches and better analytical methods to understand and address this growing challenge.
Source, migration and toxicology of microplastics in soil
This review compiles research on the sources, movement, and toxic effects of microplastics in soil ecosystems, an area that has received less attention than aquatic pollution. Researchers describe how microplastics enter soil through agricultural practices, wastewater, and atmospheric deposition, then transfer through food chains to affect organisms at multiple levels. The study identifies major knowledge gaps and proposes management strategies to mitigate the ecological and human health risks of soil microplastic contamination.
Micro- and nanoplastics in agricultural soils: Assessing impacts and navigating mitigation
This review summarizes how tiny plastic particles from plastic mulch films and treated sewage end up in farm soil, where they can harm soil health, change how water moves through dirt, and interfere with plant growth. Because these plastics can be absorbed by crops, there is a potential pathway for microplastics to reach humans through the food we eat.
Uptake, transport and accumulation of micro- and nano-plastics in terrestrial plants and health risk associated with their transfer to food chain - A mini review.
This review examines how micro- and nano-plastics (MNPs) are taken up, transported, and accumulated in terrestrial plants, and assesses the associated health risks as MNPs transfer through the food chain from contaminated soil and water environments.
Micro/Nanoplastics in Agricultural Soils and Associated Hazard
This review surveys the sources, distribution, and hazards of micro- and nanoplastics in agricultural soils, with particular attention to how MPs interact with soil organisms, alter nutrient availability, and accumulate in crops in ways that threaten both soil health and food safety.
Microplastics in agroecosystems: A review of effects on soil biota and key soil functions
This review examines how microplastic and nanoplastic contamination in agricultural soils affects soil organisms and ecological functions. Researchers found that plastics enter farmland through multiple pathways including plastic mulch, sewage sludge, and irrigation water, and once present they alter soil properties and exhibit toxic behavior toward soil biota. The study identifies significant knowledge gaps about the long-term impacts of microplastic accumulation on agricultural productivity and food safety.
Microplastics in terrestrial ecosystem: Sources and migration in soil environment
This review highlights that microplastic pollution in soils may be even more widespread than in oceans, entering farmland through plastic mulch, sewage sludge, and fertilizers. Microplastics in soil can transfer into the food chain through plants, raising concerns about long-term human exposure through the foods we eat.
The hidden impacts of micro/nanoplastics on soil, crop and human health
This review examines the chain of impacts from micro- and nanoplastics in soil through crop uptake to potential human health effects. Researchers found that these tiny particles can stick to plant roots, enter crop tissues, and carry toxic chemicals along with them. The study highlights that this soil-to-plate pathway is still poorly understood and calls for more research into how agricultural microplastic contamination may affect the food we eat.