Claim · model-written summary
CuO-NPs raised root superoxide dismutase activity from 2.4 ± 0.4 to 6.1 ± 0.8 U g-1 FW.
- Taxon
- onion
Allium cepat0 - Treatment
- CuO-NPse0
- Outcome
- superoxide dismutases activitye0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Value
- 6.1 ± 0.8e0
- Qualifier
- 2.4 ± 0.4e0
- Comparator
- controle0
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Verbatim
e0“The superoxide dismutases activity (U g-1 FW) of roots increased from 2.4 ± 0.4 (control) to 6.1 ± 0.8 (CuO-NPs), 4.1 ± 0.2 (Al2O3-NPs) and 2.9 ± 0.2 (TiO2-NPs)”
t0“onion (Allium cepa) bulb”
Title
Bilal Ahmed; Mohammad Shahid; Mohammad Saghir Khan; et al. Metallomics 2018. doi:10.1039/c8mt00093j
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- Intervention effect CuO-NPs reduced onion root mitotic index by 28% relative to untreated roots.
- Intervention effect TiO2-NPs reduced onion root mitotic index by 17% relative to untreated roots.
- Intervention effect Al2O3-NPs increased onion root mitotic index by 13% relative to untreated roots.
- Association Nanoparticle internalization in onion root tissue was dose dependent.
- Observation Treated onion roots exhibited bridges, stickiness, vagrant, broken and lag chromosomes.
- Intervention effect CuO-NPs increased onion root reactive oxygen species activity by 58%.
- Intervention effect Al2O3-NPs increased onion root reactive oxygen species activity by 30%.
- Intervention effect TiO2-NPs increased onion root reactive oxygen species activity by 10%.
- Intervention effect Al2O3-NPs raised root superoxide dismutase activity to 4.1 ± 0.2 U g-1 FW.
- Intervention effect TiO2-NPs raised root superoxide dismutase activity to 2.9 ± 0.2 U g-1 FW.
- Intervention effect CuO-NPs raised root catalase activity to 18.5 ± 2.1 versus 11.4 ± 1 in controls.
- Intervention effect Al2O3-NPs raised root catalase activity to 15 ± 1.1 versus 11.4 ± 1 in controls.
- Intervention effect TiO2-NPs raised root catalase activity to 13.8 ± 1 versus 11.4 ± 1 in controls.
- Association Formazan formation rose with dose in roots treated with Al2O3-NPs.
- Association Formazan formation rose with dose in roots treated with TiO2-NPs.
- Observation Under CuO-NPs, root absorbance was high at 200 μg ml-1 but fell at 2000 μg ml-1.