Plants also eat plastic

By: Trademagazin editor Date: 2020. 07. 14. 11:10

According to a recent research, plastic waste not only pollutes the waters of the seas and oceans, but as it turned out, in addition to animals, plants are also able to “eat” them – hvg.hu wrote. This is because even very small plastic particles can penetrate the root tissue from the soil and thus the plant cannot absorb enough water, and the researchers say that plastic can also change the genetic makeup of the plant.

Nothing is safe from plastics anymore: according to a study published in the journal Nature Nanotechnology, plants are able to absorb even the smallest piece of plastic with their roots – HVG, wrote. Chinese researchers studied the phenomenon under laboratory conditions. Goose grass (Arabidopsis thaliana) native to Europe, Asia and Northwest Africa has been studied. This plant is an important plant biological model organism due to its low chromosome number and short generation time. (hvg.hu)