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Zea mays L.: 400 mg L -1 SiO2 nanoparticles increased seed germination, root and shoot lengths.
- Treatment
- 400 mg L -1 SiO 2 NPse0
- Outcome
- seed germination, root and shoot lengthse0
- Direction
- increasede0
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e0“In the crops and medicinal plants, 400 mg L -1 SiO 2 NPs significantly increased seed germination, root and shoot lengths, fresh weights (except for H. officinalis ) and dry weights, photosynthetic pigments, total protein, and total amino acid (except for H. officinalis ).”
t0“Morphological, Physiological and Biochemical Responses of Crops (Zea mays L., Phaseolus vulgaris L.), Medicinal Plants (Hyssopus officinalis L., Nigella sativa L.), and Weeds (Amaranthus retroflexus L., Taraxacum officinale F. H. Wigg) Exposed to SiO2 Nanoparticles”
Title
Javad Sharifi‐Rad; Majid Sharifi‐Rad; Jaime A. Teixeira da Silva 2016
Other claims from this paper (18)
- Intervention effect Zea mays L.: 400 mg L -1 SiO2 nanoparticles increased dry weights, photosynthetic pigments, total protein.
- Intervention effect Zea mays L.: 400 mg L -1 SiO2 nanoparticles increased total amino acid.
- Intervention effect Zea mays L.: treatment increased fresh weights.
- Intervention effect Phaseolus vulgaris L.: 400 mg L -1 SiO2 nanoparticles increased seed germination, root and shoot lengths.
- Intervention effect Phaseolus vulgaris L.: 400 mg L -1 SiO2 nanoparticles increased dry weights, photosynthetic pigments, total protein.
- Intervention effect Phaseolus vulgaris L.: 400 mg L -1 SiO2 nanoparticles increased total amino acid.
- Intervention effect Phaseolus vulgaris L.: treatment increased fresh weights.
- Intervention effect Hyssopus officinalis L.: 400 mg L -1 SiO2 nanoparticles increased seed germination, root and shoot lengths.
- Intervention effect Hyssopus officinalis L.: 400 mg L -1 SiO2 nanoparticles increased dry weights, photosynthetic pigments, total protein.
- Intervention effect Nigella sativa L.: 400 mg L -1 SiO2 nanoparticles increased seed germination, root and shoot lengths.
- Intervention effect Nigella sativa L.: 400 mg L -1 SiO2 nanoparticles increased dry weights, photosynthetic pigments, total protein.
- Intervention effect Nigella sativa L.: 400 mg L -1 SiO2 nanoparticles increased total amino acid.
- Intervention effect Nigella sativa L.: treatment increased fresh weights.
- Intervention effect Amaranthus retroflexus L.: increasing SiO2 nanoparticle concentration decreased germination, root and shoot lengths, fresh and dry weights, and photosynthetic pigments as well as total protein.
- Intervention effect Taraxacum officinale F. H. Wigg: increasing SiO2 nanoparticle concentration decreased germination, root and shoot lengths, fresh and dry weights, and photosynthetic pigments as well as total protein.
- Intervention effect Total carbohydrates decreased in the studied plants except A. retroflexus at 400 mg L -1.
- Association Proline content increased with SiO2 nanoparticle concentration in all studied plant species.
- Recommendation A lower SiO2 nanoparticle concentration may benefit plant morphology, physiology and biochemistry.