Multiwalled carbon nanotubes in alfalfa and wheat: Toxicology and uptake

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 9, Issue 77, 2012, Pages 3514-3527

  Miralles, Pola ^a   Johnson, Errin ^b   Church, Tamara L ^a   Harris, Andrew T ^a  

^a School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotubes; Electron microscopy; Nanotube phytotoxicity; Nanotube uptake; Plants; Raman mapping

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMISTRY; CARBON NANOTUBES; CULTIVATION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPES; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; INDUSTRIAL PLANTS; MAPPING; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN); NANOTUBES; TOXICITY;

CATALYST IMPURITY; FUNCTIONALIZED; HIGH CONCENTRATION; MULTI-WALLED; PLANTS; RAMAN MAPPING; ROOT ELONGATION; ROOT SURFACES; SEED GERMINATION; SEEDLING GROWTH; VASCULAR PLANT; WHEAT ROOTS; WHEAT SEEDLINGS;

SEED;

IRON OXIDE; MULTI WALLED NANOTUBE; NANOPARTICLE;

ADSORPTION; ALFALFA; ARTICLE; CATALYST; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GERMINATION; INTERNALIZATION; NONHUMAN; PHYTOTOXICITY; PLANT EPIDERMIS; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT ROOT; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; TOXICITY TESTING; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; WHEAT;

EID: 84868591932     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2012.0535     Document Type: Article

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