Multilevel Approach to Plant-nanomaterial Relationships: from Cells to Living Ecosystems

Overview

Journal J Exp Bot

Publisher Oxford University Press

Specialty Biology

Date 2023 Mar 22

PMID 36946676

Authors

Halley Caixeta Oliveira

Amedea Barozzi Seabra

Selahattin Kondak

Oluwatosin Peace Adedokun

Zsuzsanna Kolbert

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Abstract

Due to their unique properties, nanomaterials behave peculiarly in biosystems. Regarding plants, the interactions of nanomaterials can be interpreted on a spatial scale: from local interactions in cells to systemic effects on whole plants and on ecosystems. Interpreted on a time scale, the effects of nanomaterials on plants may be immediate or subsequent. At the cellular level, the composition and structure of the cell wall and membranes are modified by nanomaterials, promoting internalization. The effects of nanomaterials on germination and seedling physiology and on the primary and secondary metabolism in the shoot are realized at organ and organism levels. Nanomaterials interact with the beneficial ecological partners of plants. The effects of nanomaterials on plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria and legume-rhizobia symbiosis can be stimulating or inhibitory, depending on the concentration and type of nanomaterial. Nanomaterials exert a negative effect on arbuscular mycorrhiza, and vice versa. Pollinators are exposed to nanomaterials, which may affect plant reproduction. The substances released by the roots influence the availability of nanomaterials in the rhizosphere, and components of plant cells trigger internalization, translocation, and transformation of nanomaterials. Understanding of the multilevel and bidirectional relationship between plants and nanomaterials is of great relevance.

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