Carbon and fullerene nanomaterials in plant system

Journal of Nanobiotechnology

Review

Azamal Husen¹  Khwaja Salahuddin Siddiqi² 

[1] Department of Biology, College of Natural and Computational Sciences, University of Gondar, P.O. Box 196, Gondar, Ethiopia;Department of Chemistry, College of Natural and Computational Sciences, University of Gondar, P.O. Box 196, Gondar, Ethiopia;

关键词: Carbon nanomaterials;    Uptake;    Accumulation;    Translocation;    Plant growth;    Seed germination;    Agriculture;   

DOI  :  10.1186/1477-3155-12-16

 received in 2014-01-25, accepted in 2014-04-14,  发布年份 2014

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

Both the functionalized and non functionalized carbon nanomaterials influence fruit and crop production in edible plants and vegetables. The fullerene, C60 and carbon nanotubes have been shown to increase the water retaining capacity, biomass and fruit yield in plants up to ~118% which is a remarkable achievement of nanotechnology in recent years. The fullerene treated bitter melon seeds also increase the phytomedicine contents such as cucurbitacin-B (74%), lycopene (82%), charantin (20%) and insulin (91%). Since as little as 50 μg mL−1 of carbon nanotubes increase the tomato production by about 200%, they may be exploited to enhance the agriculture production in future. It has been observed that, in certain cases, non functionalized multi-wall carbon nanotubes are toxic to both plants and animals but the toxicity can be drastically reduced if they are functionalized.

【 授权许可】

CC BY   
© Husen and Siddiqi; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2014