Claim · model-written summary
Nanofertilizers reduced lettuce dry biomass by 30–65% compared with controls.
- Taxon
- Lactuca sativa
Lactuca sativae0 - Treatment
- Nanofertilizerse3
- Outcome
- dry biomasse4
- Direction
- decreasese4
- Value
- 30–65%e4
- Comparator
- controlse4
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Verbatim
e0“using Lactuca sativa seeds under adapted OECD-208 protocol conditions”
e3“Nanofertilizers caused 45–78% reductions in root length”
e4“30–65% decreases in dry biomass compared with controls”
Title
Ezequiel Zamora-Ledezma; Glenda Leonela Loor Aragundi; Willian Stalyn Guamán Marquines; et al. Journal of Xenobiotics 2025. doi:10.3390/jox15040123
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Intervention effect Nanofertilizers were more phytotoxic to lettuce than engineered nanoparticles despite lower application concentrations.
- Intervention effect NF1 was the most toxic tested material to lettuce, with EC50 of 1.2%.
- Intervention effect Nanofertilizers reduced lettuce root length by 45–78% compared with controls.
- Intervention effect NF1 and NF3 treatments reduced germination index of lettuce to 70% or less.
- Association Growth inhibition of lettuce by nanofertilizers was concentration-dependent.
- Recommendation The authors recommend a rigorous pre-application safety assessment of nanofertilizers.