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Microplastic/nanoplastic toxicity in plants: an imminent concern
Environmental Monitoring & Assessment, 2022 The toxic impact of microplastics/nanoplastics (MPs/NPs) in plants and the food chain has recently become a top priority. Several research articles highlighted the impact of MPs/NPs on the aquatic food chain; however, very little has been done in the ...
Tapati Roy, T. K. Dey, M. Jamal
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Toxic plants act as indiscriminate protectors of insects
Communications Biology, 2021 Aposematism is a prey strategy to communicate toxicity or danger to predators, often through bright colours, and over time is learned by predators. McLellan et al. report in Current Biology that association between an aposematic insect and its host plant
Luke R. Grinham
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Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 2018 The production of toxic plant secondary metabolites (phytotoxins) for defense is a widespread phenomenon in the plant kingdom and is even present in agricultural crops.
B. Günthardt +4 more
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Journal of Integrative Plant Biology, 2022 Plants take up a wide range of trace metals/metalloids (hereinafter referred to as trace metals) from the soil, some of which are essential but become toxic at high concentrations (e.g.
Zhong Tang +4 more
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A Politics of Habitability: Plants, Healing, and Sovereignty in a Toxic World
Cultural Anthropology, 2018 For Tanzanians, modern bodies bear complicated toxic loads not only because of the dumping of capitalism’s harmful by-products but also because of the social-material effects of efforts designed to address insecurity, poverty, and disease.
S. Langwick
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Plants, 2021 Herbal medicine and its therapeutic applications are widely practiced in northeastern Morocco, and people are knowledgeable about it. Nonetheless, there is a significant knowledge gap regarding their safety.
Loubna Kharchoufa +6 more
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Root exudates enhanced rhizobacteria complexity and microbial carbon metabolism of toxic plants
iScience, 2022 Summary: Root exudates and rhizosphere microorganisms play key roles in the colonization of toxic plants under climate change and land degradation. However, how root exudates affect the rhizosphere microorganisms and soil nutrients of toxic plants in ...
Wenyin Wang +12 more
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DeckerMed Neurology, 2015 Many species of plants and mushrooms exist that, when consumed, can induce poisoning in individuals, causing a range of side effects. As the toxins do not always correspond to an antidote, it is important to have the ability to identify each harmful species to determine the appropriate treatment.
Richard Church, Marie King
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Plants causing poisoning outbreaks of livestock in South America: A review
Toxicon: X, 2023 This paper reviews toxic plants for livestock in South America. We included 219 plants in this review, considering only the plants that caused at least one demonstrated outbreak of poisoning. Plants reported as toxic in other regions and present in South
Franklin Riet-Correa +2 more
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Relative importance of deterministic and stochastic processes in driving arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal assemblage during the spreading of a toxic plant. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Both deterministic and stochastic processes are expected to drive the assemblages of arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi, but little is known about the relative importance of these processes during the spreading of toxic plants.
Guoxi Shi +8 more
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