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Toxicity assessment of metal oxide nano-pollutants on tomato (Solanum lycopersicon): A study on growth dynamics and plant cell death.
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The present study for the first time demonstrated the interactions of metal oxide (MO) nano-pollutants (CuO and Al2O3-NPs) with tissues and cellular DNA of tomato plants grown in soil sand: silt: clay and Hoagland-hydroponic system and assessed the hazardous effects of NPs on cell physiology and biochemistry.About:
This article is published in Environmental Pollution.The article was published on 2018-05-26. It has received 88 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Shoot & Chlorophyll.read more
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Nanofertilizer use for sustainable agriculture: Advantages and limitations.
TL;DR: Although nanofertilizers use in agriculture is offering great opportunities to improve plant nutrition and stress tolerance to achieve higher yields in a frame of climate change, not all nanomaterials will be equally safe for all applications.
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Nanoparticle-Based Sustainable Agriculture and Food Science: Recent Advances and Future Outlook
TL;DR: In this article, the authors highlight the critical points to address the current nanotechnology-based agricultural research that could benefit productivity and food security in future, and highlight some of the most important issues to be addressed.
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ZnO and CuO nanoparticles: a threat to soil organisms, plants, and human health.
Vishnu D. Rajput,Tatiana Minkina,Svetlana Sushkova,Arvind Behal,Alexey Maksimov,Eliza Blicharska,Karen Ghazaryan,Hasmik Movsesyan,Natalia Barsova +8 more
TL;DR: The potential benefits and unintentional dangers of NPs to the environment and human health are essential to evaluate and expected to produce less toxic and more degradable NPS to minimize the environmental risk in the future.
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Foliar application of copper nanoparticles increases the fruit quality and the content of bioactive compounds in tomatoes
Elsy Rubisela López-Vargas,Hortensia Ortega-Ortiz,Gregorio Cadenas-Pliego,Karim de Alba Romenus,Marcelino Cabrera-De la Fuente,Adalberto Benavides-Mendoza,Antonio Juárez-Maldonado +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, the effect of the foliar application of Cu nanoparticles (NPs) on the content of the bioactive compounds in tomato fruits has been investigated, and the results showed that the application of the NPs induced the production of fruits with greater firmness.
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A review on metal-based nanoparticles and their toxicity to beneficial soil bacteria and fungi.
TL;DR: In this paper, a review summarizes the production, application, release of metal nanoparticles in the soil system and their impact on various soil microbes specifically plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria, cellular toxicity and impact of nanoparticles on bioactive molecule production by microbes, destructive nanoparticle impact on unicellular, mycorrhizal, and cellulose/lignin degrading fungi.
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Copper enzymes in isolated chloroplasts. polyphenoloxidase in beta vulgaris
TL;DR: Evidence that a copper enzyme, polyphenoloxidase (otherwise known as tyrosinase or catecholase), is localized in the chloroplasts of spinach beet (chard), Beta vu?garis is presented.
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Thermodynamics of protein association reactions: forces contributing to stability
Philip D. Ross,S. Subramanian +1 more
TL;DR: On the basis of the thermochemical behavior of small molecule interactions, it is concluded that the strengthening of hydrogen bonds in the past decade, a complete thermodynamic description of the self-association of many proteins and their interactions is concluded.
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The Role of Root Exudates in Rhizosphere Interactions with Plants and Other Organisms
TL;DR: Recent advances in elucidating the role of root exudates in interactions between plant roots and other plants, microbes, and nematodes present in the rhizosphere are described.
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Infrared spectroscopy of proteins.
TL;DR: This review discusses the application of infrared spectroscopy to the study of proteins by focusing on the mid-infrared spectral region and theStudy of protein reactions by reaction-induced infrared difference spectroscopic.