New evidence shows plant leaves absorb airborne microplastics, a previously overlooked route for the particles to enter crops ...

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More insight into the process could improve crop productivity WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue University scientists have discovered a key mechanism that regulates how plants develop chloroplasts, ...

Nankai University researchers have found that plant leaves can directly absorb microplastics (MPs) from the atmosphere, ...

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1), microplastics move through spaces between plant cells and can also accumulate inside tiny hair-like structures, called trichomes ... Leaves with a longer growth duration and the outer leaves of ...

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Imaging wall-less plant cells every six minutes for 24 hours revealed how the cells build their protective barriers.

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Specialized transporters in the outer chloroplast membrane ... chloroplast development and structure, said Yoon, who is also a member of the Purdue Center for Plant Biology.