ArticleToxics2021
Effect of Polystyrene Microplastics on Rice Seed Germination and Antioxidant Enzyme Activity.
Article in Toxics, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers.
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- From Abiotic Stress to Emerging Environmental Pollutants: Expanding Roles of Melatonin and NO in Plant Defense.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Review
- Impacts of Tobacco Stalk Biochar Remediation in Microplastic-Contaminated Soil on Early Rice Growth Indicators and Soil Quality.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Polyethylene Microplastics Inhibit Peanut Nodulation via Metabolic and Transcriptional Pathways.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Effects of Polyethylene and Polystyrene Microplastics on Oat (Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Impact of ultrasound-assisted germination and varied drying methods on phenolic biosynthesis, antioxidant capacity, and oxidative enzyme activity in selenium-biofortified black rice.Ultrasonics sonochemistry · 2025Article
- Microplastics in soil-plant systems: impacts on soil health, plant toxicity, and multiomics insights.Plant cell reports · 2025Review
- Seasonal assessment and characterization of microplastics in two urban (Balu) and peri-urban (Shitalakshya) rivers of Bangladesh.RSC advances · 2025Article
- Assessment of physiological stress on plants grown in soil contaminated with microplastics.Scientific reports · 2025Article
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- Micro/Nanoplastics in plantation agricultural products: behavior process, phytotoxicity under biotic and abiotic stresses, and controlling strategies.Journal of nanobiotechnology · 2025Review
- Assessing the impact of micro and nanoplastics on the productivity of vegetable crops in terrestrial horticulture: a comprehensive review.Environmental monitoring and assessment · 2025Review
- Impact of Polystyrene Microplastics on Soil Properties, Microbial Diversity andPlants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- The fate of biodegradable polylactic acid microplastics in maize: impacts on cellular ion fluxes and plant growth.Frontiers in plant science · 2025Article
- Environmental levels of microplastics disrupt growth and stress pathways in edible crops via species-specific mechanisms.Frontiers in plant science · 2025Article
- Plants and microplastics: Growing impacts in the terrestrial environment.Frontiers in plant science · 2025Review
- Polyethylene terephthalate nanoplastics affect potassium accumulation in foxtail millet (Setaria italica) seedlings.BMC plant biology · 2024Article
- Microplastics increase cadmium absorption and impair nutrient uptake and growth in red amaranth (Amaranthus tricolor L.) in the presence of cadmium and biochar.BMC plant biology · 2024Article
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Abstract
The accumulation and distribution of microplastics (MPs) in agricultural soils, including rice fields, is well studied. However, only a few studies have investigated the uptake of MPs by rice plants and the consequential toxic effects of MPs under solid-phase culture conditions. Hence, in this study, we explored the effects of different concentrations of polystyrene MPs (PS-MPs, with a size of 200 nm) on rice seed germination, root growth, antioxidant enzyme activity, and transcriptome. PS-MPs exhibited no significant effect on the germination of rice seeds (
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