Claim · model-written summary
High nanoparticle concentrations decreased root and shoot fresh weight.
- Taxon
- wheat
Triticum aestivume0 - Treatment
- SiO 2 nanoparticles, at concentrations higher 200 mg/Le0
- Outcome
- roots and shoots fresh weighte0
- Direction
- decreasede0
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Verbatim
e0“SiO 2 nanoparticles, at concentrations higher 200 mg/L, had negative impacts on wheat seedlings. At these concentrations, SiO 2 nanoparticles significantly decreased roots and shoots fresh weight”
Title
Effects of silicon oxide nanoparticles on growth and physiology of wheat seedlings
J. Karimi; S. Mohsenzadeh Russian Journal of Plant Physiology 2016. doi:10.1134/s1021443716010106
Other claims from this paper (4)
- Intervention effect High nanoparticle concentrations decreased root and shoot dry weight.
- Intervention effect High nanoparticle concentrations decreased leaf chlorophyll a, chlorophyll b and carotenoids.
- Intervention effect High nanoparticle concentrations increased leaf proline content, lipid peroxidation and catalase activity.
- Intervention effect Lower nanoparticle concentrations could have some positive effects on wheat seedlings.