Genotoxic and Toxicopathological Responses to Ethylparaben in Plants: Potential Impacts to Crop Yields.

ABSTRACT: Ethylparaben (EtP) is an emerging pollutant that is widely found in the environment, particularly in agricultural landscapes. With the extensive contamination of agricultural soils and irrigation waters, there is a rising concern about their potential impact on crop yields. To provide some of the first evidence that EtP may be more than just an agricultural contaminant, but a potential pollutant, we evaluated the systemic toxicities and cellular responses triggered by EtP in seed roots of Daucus carota, Lycopersicum esculentum, and Cucumis sativus, and in bulb roots of Allium cepa, at environmentally relevant concentrations of 1, 10, 100, and 1000 ng·L^-1. The seeds and bulbs remained in contact with the concentrations for 7 days. Distilled water and T

SUBMITTER: Almeida EA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12656058 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature