Benomyl modulates paracetamol bioaccumulation and endophytic microbiome diversity in zucchini
Huladduwa Mudiyanselage Chathurika Priyadarshani, Elżbieta Mierzejewska-Sinner, Bartosz Kózka, Joanna Giebułtowicz, Magdalena Urbaniak · 2025
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Description
Chathurika Priyadarshani and her four co-authors, publishing in 2025, study how a common painkiller moves through zucchini plants, and how a fungicide changes the trip. Paracetamol washes into soils and water as a pollutant. Plants of the squash family can soak it up, which makes them candidates for cleaning contaminated ground. The team grew zucchini under four regimes for 28 days: plain, drug only, fungicide only, and both together.
Drug alone piled up in the roots. Adding the fungicide, benomyl, sent twenty-four times more drug into the shoots and leaves. All treatments shrank the plants somewhat, but the combined treatment kept the greenest leaves, as if the fungicide blunted stress. The inner microbial community also fared better with both chemicals than with the drug alone. The authors say the pairing boosts the plants' cleanup potential.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Huladduwa Mudiyanselage Chathurika Priyadarshani, Elżbieta Mierzejewska-Sinner, Bartosz Kózka, Joanna Giebułtowicz, Magdalena Urbaniak |
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| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 57 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |