Abstract
Gladiolus spikes with fully turgid petals need to have a longer shelf life to fetch a higher price as well as display value. To improve the life duration of ornamental flowers, the ability of plants to produce silver nanoparticles (AgNP) was exploited. The ability of plants to produce AgNP when treated with silver nitrate solutions was juxtaposed by using Gladiolus (cut flowers): (i) To find the appropriate concentration of AgNO3 suitable for increasing shelf-life of Gladiolus cut flowers; (ii) To prepare silver nanoparticle from AgNO3; and (iii) To confirm the formation of silver nanoparticle using UV-vis spectrophotometry. Two different reductants (dehydrogenases present at the surface of the plant cells and sucrose) demonstrated the reduction of Ag+ to generate AgNPs. DLS (Dynamic Light Scattering) study revealed the presence of NPs in the AgNO3 salt solution incubated with Gladiolus cut flowers. The DLS data also suggested that the size of AgNPs decreased with increasing concentration of AgNO3. In the present study, along with silver nitrate, sucrose was also used. The shelf life and display value of the cut Gladiolus can be increased and optimized by incubating it in sucrose solution in combination with AgNO3.
Abstract from the paper’s OpenAlex record; open copy licensed cc-by-nc-nd. Read at the source ↗
The text the model read, with the source record’s inline markup (italics, sub- and superscripts) rendered and its character entities decoded; quote offsets refer to the raw text.
Claims 6
Claim · model-written summary
Plant cell surface dehydrogenases reduced silver ions to form silver nanoparticles.
GladiolusNot reportedDirection
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“dehydrogenases present at the surface of the plant cells and sucrose) demonstrated the reduction of Ag+ to generate AgNPs”
t0“Gladiolus”
Claim · model-written summary
Sucrose reduced silver ions to form silver nanoparticles.
Not reportedDirection
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“sucrose) demonstrated the reduction of Ag+ to generate AgNPs”
t0“Gladiolus”
Claim · model-written summary
DLS detected nanoparticles in silver nitrate solution incubated with cut Gladiolus.
- Outcome
- presence of NPse0
Not reportedComparatorValue
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“DLS (Dynamic Light Scattering) study revealed the presence of NPs in the AgNO3 salt solution incubated with Gladiolus cut flowers”
Claim · model-written summary
Silver nanoparticle size decreased as silver nitrate concentration increased.
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“the size of AgNPs decreased with increasing concentration of AgNO3”
t0“Gladiolus”
Claim · model-written summary
Incubation with sucrose and silver nitrate can increase cut Gladiolus shelf life.
- Treatment
- incubating it in sucrose solution in combination with AgNO3e0
- Outcome
- shelf lifee0
- Direction
- increasede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The shelf life and display value of the cut Gladiolus can be increased and optimized by incubating it in sucrose solution in combination with AgNO3”
Claim · model-written summary
Incubation with sucrose and silver nitrate can increase display value of cut Gladiolus.
- Treatment
- incubating it in sucrose solution in combination with AgNO3e0
- Outcome
- display valuee0
- Direction
- increasede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The shelf life and display value of the cut Gladiolus can be increased and optimized by incubating it in sucrose solution in combination with AgNO3”
The same questions in other papers
silver(1+) nitrate · quality: postharvest · GladiolusResults agree
5 papers in the same direction as this paper
- positive
- positive
- positive
2 papers more in this group
See all 6 papers →sucrose · quality: postharvest · GladiolusResults agree
26 papers in the same direction as this paper
- positive
- positive
- positive
23 papers more in this group
See all 27 papers →Claims are grouped by organism, treatment and what was measured or targeted. A paper counts as positive when any of its claims in the group is positive.