Graphene Oxide-Assisted Promotion of Plant Growth and Stability

The control and promotion of plant and crop growth are important challenges globally. In this study, we have developed a nanomaterial-assisted bionic strategy for accelerating plant growth. Although nanomaterials have been shown to be toxic to plants, we demonstrate herein that graphene oxide can be...

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Autores principales: Park, Sunho, Choi, Kyoung Soon, Kim, Sujin, Gwon, Yonghyun, Kim, Jangho
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7221628/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32326526
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nano10040758
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author Park, Sunho
Choi, Kyoung Soon
Kim, Sujin
Gwon, Yonghyun
Kim, Jangho
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description The control and promotion of plant and crop growth are important challenges globally. In this study, we have developed a nanomaterial-assisted bionic strategy for accelerating plant growth. Although nanomaterials have been shown to be toxic to plants, we demonstrate herein that graphene oxide can be used as a regulator tool for enhancing plant growth and stability. Graphene oxide was added to the growth medium of Arabidopsis thaliana L. as well as injected into the stem of the watermelon plant. We showed that with an appropriate amount provided, graphene oxide had a positive effect on plant growth in terms of increasing the length of roots, the area of leaves, the number of leaves, and the formation of flower buds. In addition, graphene oxide affected the watermelon ripeness, increasing the perimeter and sugar content of the fruit. We believe that graphene oxide may be used as a strategy for enabling the acceleration of both plant growth and the fruit ripening process.
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spelling pubmed-72216282020-05-22 Graphene Oxide-Assisted Promotion of Plant Growth and Stability Park, Sunho Choi, Kyoung Soon Kim, Sujin Gwon, Yonghyun Kim, Jangho Nanomaterials (Basel) Communication The control and promotion of plant and crop growth are important challenges globally. In this study, we have developed a nanomaterial-assisted bionic strategy for accelerating plant growth. Although nanomaterials have been shown to be toxic to plants, we demonstrate herein that graphene oxide can be used as a regulator tool for enhancing plant growth and stability. Graphene oxide was added to the growth medium of Arabidopsis thaliana L. as well as injected into the stem of the watermelon plant. We showed that with an appropriate amount provided, graphene oxide had a positive effect on plant growth in terms of increasing the length of roots, the area of leaves, the number of leaves, and the formation of flower buds. In addition, graphene oxide affected the watermelon ripeness, increasing the perimeter and sugar content of the fruit. We believe that graphene oxide may be used as a strategy for enabling the acceleration of both plant growth and the fruit ripening process. MDPI 2020-04-15 /pmc/articles/PMC7221628/ /pubmed/32326526 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nano10040758 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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title_short Graphene Oxide-Assisted Promotion of Plant Growth and Stability
title_sort graphene oxide-assisted promotion of plant growth and stability
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7221628/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32326526
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nano10040758
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