Once inside the leaf (Fig. 1), microplastics move through spaces between plant cells and can also accumulate inside tiny hair-like structures, called trichomes, on the surface of leaves.

Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The Grainger College of Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana−Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States ...

However, they still require proteins made from instructions in the cell nucleus to function properly ... who is also a member of the Purdue Center for Plant Biology. "This discovery deepens ...