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ClearImpact of nanoplastics uptake on modulation of plant metabolism and stress responses: a multi-omics perspective on remediation and tolerance mechanisms
Researchers reviewed how nanoplastics accumulate in plant tissues and disrupt metabolism, finding that these particles impair nutrient uptake, trigger reactive oxygen species overproduction, and alter gene and protein expression, while multi-omics approaches are revealing the molecular stress-response networks that plants use to tolerate or remediate nanoplastic contamination.
Transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics interventions prompt crop improvement against metal(loid) toxicity
This review examines how advanced molecular analysis tools -- transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics -- are helping scientists understand how plants respond to toxic metals in contaminated soil. While focused on metal toxicity rather than microplastics directly, these same tools are being used to study how microplastics interact with heavy metals to create combined threats to crop safety and human health.
Unveiling the impact of microplastics and nanoplastics on vascular plants: A cellular metabolomic and transcriptomic review
This review summarizes how microplastics and nanoplastics affect plant health at the cellular and genetic level, disrupting metabolism, nutrient uptake, and growth in vascular plants. Since contaminated crops are a pathway for microplastics to enter the human diet, understanding how plants absorb and respond to these particles is important for food safety.
The effects of Micro/Nano-plastics exposure on plants and their toxic mechanisms: A review from multi-omics perspectives.
A multi-omics review of micro/nanoplastic effects on plants found that plastic exposure disrupts gene expression, protein function, and metabolic pathways across multiple plant systems, with potential consequences for crop yield and agricultural food safety.
The toxicity of nanoparticles and their interaction with cells: an in vitro metabolomic perspective
This review examines how nanoparticles interact with human cells and cause toxic effects, using a technique called metabolomics to track changes in cell chemistry. Understanding nanoparticle toxicity is relevant to microplastic research because nanoplastics behave similarly to other nanoparticles, penetrating cells and disrupting normal metabolic processes.
Molecular Effects of Biogenic Zinc Nanoparticles on the Growth and Development of Brassica napus L. Revealed by Proteomics and Transcriptomics
This study investigated how biogenic zinc nanoparticles affect the growth and development of rapeseed plants using proteomics and transcriptomics approaches. While not directly focused on microplastics, the research contributes to understanding how nano-scale particles interact with plant biology at the molecular level.
Exploring omics solutions to reduce micro/nanoplastic toxicity in plants: A comprehensive overview
This review summarizes how advanced biological analysis techniques are being used to understand how micro- and nanoplastics harm crops by disrupting water uptake, nutrient absorption, and photosynthesis. Since these tiny plastic particles accumulate in agricultural soil and can enter the food chain, the research highlights a potential pathway for microplastics to reach humans through the food we eat.
Nanoparticles in Plants: Uptake, Transport and Physiological Activity in Leaf and Root
This review examines how nanoparticles are absorbed and transported through plant roots and leaves, and how they affect plant growth and health. Understanding nanoparticle uptake by crops is important because similar mechanisms may apply to nanoplastics, meaning tiny plastic particles in soil could potentially enter the food supply through plants.
Nanoparticles Enhance Plant Resistance to Abiotic Stresses: A Bibliometric Statistic
This bibliometric analysis of nanoparticle research in plant abiotic stress tolerance mapped publication trends, key countries, institutions, and research themes, finding rapid growth in the field and identifying drought, salinity, and heavy metal stress as the most studied applications of nanoparticles for improving crop resilience.
Breaking Barriers in Eco-Friendly Synthesis of Plant-Mediated Metal/Metal Oxide/Bimetallic Nanoparticles: Antibacterial, Anticancer, Mechanism Elucidation, and Versatile Utilizations
This review covers how plant extracts can be used to create metal nanoparticles in an environmentally friendly way, replacing toxic chemical manufacturing methods. While focused on nanoparticle synthesis rather than microplastics, these green manufacturing approaches could reduce reliance on synthetic plastic-based materials in biomedical and industrial applications.
The Role of Omics Technology in Evaluating Plastic Pollution’s Effects on Plants: A Comprehensive Review
This comprehensive review examines how omics technologies (genomics, proteomics, metabolomics, transcriptomics) are being applied to understand the molecular mechanisms by which micro- and nanoplastics damage plants, including oxidative stress, stunted growth, and disrupted soil microbiomes.
Metabolic and transcriptomic responses of Taxus mairei to nano-pollutants: insights into AgNPs and PsNPs impact
Taxus mairei plants exposed to polystyrene nanoplastics (PsNPs) and silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) showed distinct metabolic and transcriptomic responses, with both nano-pollutants disrupting primary and secondary metabolism—including taxol biosynthesis pathways—at different doses, with implications for medicinal plant cultivation in polluted environments.
Imaging tools for plant nanobiotechnology
This review surveys imaging tools used in plant nanobiotechnology to track how nanomaterials migrate into plant organs, penetrate tissues, and interact with cells, helping researchers understand both beneficial applications and potential toxicity of nanomaterials in agriculture.
A metabolomics perspective on the effect of environmental micro and nanoplastics on living organisms: A review
This review examines how scientists use metabolomics, the study of small molecules produced by cellular processes, to understand the toxic effects of microplastics and nanoplastics on living organisms. The research shows that these plastic particles disrupt metabolism in consistent ways across species, affecting energy production, fat processing, and amino acid pathways. These shared metabolic disruptions across different organisms suggest that microplastics could cause similar metabolic problems in humans.
Advances in transport and toxicity of nanoparticles in plants
Researchers reviewed how nanoparticles released into the environment are absorbed, transported, and accumulated by land plants, with evidence that they can stunt plant growth, damage cell structures, and cause DNA damage through oxidative stress. Because some of these plants are edible crops, nanoparticle contamination in soil poses a potential pathway for human health exposure.
Nanoscale-specific bioassimilation of sulfur: Time and coating specific modulation of transcriptomic and metabolomic pathways in diseased tomato
This study tested pristine and coated sulfur nanoparticles as soil amendments to help tomato plants resist fungal disease while also improving sulfur nutrition, finding disease suppression benefits alongside metabolic and microbiome effects. Understanding how nanoparticles affect plant-soil-microbe interactions is relevant given concerns that plastic nanoparticles contaminating soils may similarly disrupt these systems.
Insights into growth-affecting effect of nanomaterials: Using metabolomics and transcriptomics to reveal the molecular mechanisms of cucumber leaves upon exposure to polystyrene nanoplastics (PSNPs)
Researchers used advanced metabolomics and gene expression analysis to understand how polystyrene nanoplastics affect cucumber plant leaves. The study found that nanoplastic exposure altered key metabolic pathways and gene expression patterns, interfering with normal plant growth and physiology. The findings provide molecular-level evidence that airborne nanoplastics settling on crops could affect plant health and potentially food production.
Study on toxicity effects of environmental pollutants based on metabolomics: A review
This review examines how metabolomics, a technology that measures changes in small molecules within organisms, is being used to study the toxic effects of environmental pollutants including microplastics, heavy metals, and pesticides. Researchers found that metabolomics can reveal subtle biological changes caused by pollutant exposure that traditional methods might miss. The study highlights metabolomics as a powerful tool for understanding how environmental contaminants disrupt normal biological processes at the molecular level.
Transport of Nanoparticles into Plants and Their Detection Methods
This review examines how nanoparticles enter plants through roots, leaves, and stems, and the methods scientists use to track them inside plant tissues. While focused broadly on nanoparticles used in agriculture and biotechnology, the findings are directly relevant to understanding how nanoplastics in soil and water can be taken up by food crops. The research highlights that particle size, charge, and coating all affect how readily nanoparticles penetrate plant barriers and accumulate in edible parts.
Effect of microplastics on the biochemistry of plant
This review synthesizes research on the pathways by which microplastics and nanoplastics are taken up and translocated in plant tissues, the biochemical effects on plant development and nutritional quality, and the detection techniques used to study plant-microplastic interactions. The authors identify major knowledge gaps in understanding soil-borne microplastic behavior and its ecological consequences for agricultural systems.
Employment of nanoparticles for improvement of plant growth and development
This review examined how nanoparticles can improve plant growth and development, finding that nanotechnology applications in agriculture — including nanoparticle-based nutrient delivery — offer potential benefits but require careful consideration of risks in contaminated soils.
Unveiling the mechanism of micro-and-nano plastic phytotoxicity on terrestrial plants: A comprehensive review of omics approaches.
This comprehensive review examined how micro-and-nano plastics (MNPs) in terrestrial soils damage plant health by inhibiting water and nutrient uptake, reducing seed germination, impairing photosynthesis, and inducing oxidative stress. The review identified key knowledge gaps in understanding MNP phytotoxicity mechanisms and their implications for food security.
Meta-analysis reveals the combined effects of microplastics and heavy metal on plants
A meta-analysis of 57 studies found that the combined toxicity of microplastics and heavy metals on plants is driven primarily by the heavy metals, while microplastics mainly interact by inducing oxidative stress damage. Microplastic biodegradation emerged as a core factor influencing heavy metal accumulation in plants, with culture environment, heavy metal type, exposure duration, and microplastic concentration and size all playing roles.
Epigenetic Modifications and Gene Expression Alterations in Plants Exposed to Nanomaterials and Nanoplastics: The Role of MicroRNAs, lncRNAs and DNA Methylation
This review examines how nanomaterials and nanoplastics alter plant gene expression through epigenetic mechanisms, focusing on changes in microRNA, long non-coding RNA, and DNA methylation patterns that could disrupt normal plant development and stress responses.