Claim · model-written summary
ZnO nanoparticles inhibited barley growth.
- Taxon
- H. sativum
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Hordeum vulgare subsp. vulgaree0 - Treatment
- ZnO NPse0
- Outcome
- growthe0
- Direction
- inhibitede0
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Verbatim
e0“The results show that ZnO NPs inhibited H. sativum growth by affecting the chlorophyll fluorescence emissions and causing deformations of the stomatal and trichome morphology, alterations to the cellular organizations, including irregularities of the chloroplasts, and disruptions to the grana and thylakoid organizations.”
Title
Effects of Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles on Physiological and Anatomical Indices in Spring Barley Tissues
Vishnu D. Rajput; Tatiana Minkina; Aleksei Fedorenko; et al. Nanomaterials 2021. doi:10.3390/nano11071722
Other claims from this paper (12)
- Intervention effect ZnO nanoparticles affected chlorophyll fluorescence emissions.
- Observation ZnO nanoparticles deformed stomatal and trichome morphology.
- Observation ZnO nanoparticles disrupted chloroplast, grana, and thylakoid organization.
- Intervention effect Treated barley leaf cells had fewer chloroplasts per cell than untreated plants.
- Intervention effect At 300 mg/L ZnO NPs, chloroplast size decreased 1.5 times.
- Intervention effect At 2000 mg/L ZnO NPs, chloroplast size decreased fourfold.
- Intervention effect At 300 mg/L ZnO NPs, leaf zinc accumulation was 3.8-fold higher than untreated plants.
- Intervention effect At 2000 mg/L ZnO NPs, leaf zinc accumulation was 10.18-fold higher than untreated plants.
- Observation High zinc content occurred in several spots in treated leaf tissues.
- Association Anatomical deviations correlated significantly with physiological observations.
- Mechanism Zinc accumulation from nanoparticles damaged photosynthetic apparatus organization.
- Mechanism Zinc accumulation from nanoparticles reduced photosynthetic activities.