Claim · model-written summary
At 100 mg/L, 50 nm ZnO nanoparticles halved wheat root length.
- Taxon
- wheat
Triticum aestivume0 - Treatment
- ZnO NPs (50 nm) at the lowest concentration (100 mg/L)e0
- Outcome
- length of the wheat rootse0
- Direction
- decreasee0
- Value
- 2-folde0
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Verbatim
e0“The more toxic ZnO NPs (50 nm) at the lowest concentration (100 mg/L) caused a 2-fold decrease in the length of the wheat roots”
Title
Karolina Stałanowska; Joanna Szablińska-Piernik; Adam Okorski; et al. International Journal of Molecular Sciences 2023. doi:10.3390/ijms241914992
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- Intervention effect Smaller ZnO nanoparticles harmed seedling growth more.
- Intervention effect Pea root elongation slowed by 20-30% only at 1000 mg/L ZnO nanoparticles.
- Intervention effect ZnO nanoparticles significantly increased sucrose in pea roots and shoots.
- Intervention effect ZnO nanoparticles significantly increased sucrose in wheat roots and shoots.
- Intervention effect ZnO nanoparticles significantly increased GABA in pea roots.
- Intervention effect ZnO nanoparticles significantly increased GABA in wheat roots.
- Intervention effect ZnO nanoparticles increased aspartate-glutamate pathway metabolites, citrate and malate in pea seedlings.
- Intervention effect ZnO nanoparticles decreased total amino acids in all wheat tissues.
- Intervention effect ZnO nanoparticles decreased malate in wheat roots.
- Intervention effect ZnO nanoparticles decreased maltose and glucose in wheat endosperm.
- Mechanism Reduced starch hydrolysis products indicate disturbed starch mobilization in wheat endosperm.