Native Plant Conservation Campaign News: Researchers expect that microplatics also threaten plants.

March 28, 2019

 

There has been a great deal of attention to the effects of plastics on wildlife and the general environment. Now botanists are calling for research into the effects of plastics and their breakdown products – microplastics and nanoplastics – on plants.

 

From Botany One:

 

 A soon to be published paper in New Phytologist outlines a series of threats plastic poses to plant life in. They propose and discuss pathways through which microplastics could impact plant growth, either positively or negatively.
 

Read the overview from Botany One: Microplastics could pose a threat to plants.