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Jul 2026
Pharmaceutical wastewater irrigation and metabolite-based environmental pharmacognosy: a perspective on quality and safety risks for medicinal plants
It is argued that pharmaceutical wastewater irrigation is a plausible yet underexamined driver of metabolite reprogramming in medicinal plants, and evidence from antibiotic-induced metabolite changes in Pinellia ternata supports this proposition.
E. O. Diovu, C. Nnadi, Ugwu Okechukwu Paul-Chima
· Frontiers in Pharmacology · 0 citations