Barriers, pathways and processes for uptake, translocation and accumulation of nanomaterials in plants - Critical review

Nanotoxicology

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 257-278

  Schwab, Fabienne ^a,b   Zhai, Guangshu ^c   Kern, Meaghan ^c   Turner, Amalia ^a,b   Schnoor, Jerald L ^c   Wiesner, Mark R ^a,b  

^a USA   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c University of Iowa   (United States)

Author keywords

Engineered nanomaterials; excretion; internalization; nanoparticles; plant physiology

Indexed keywords

MULTI WALLED NANOTUBE; NANOMATERIAL; NATURAL ORGANIC MATTER; PECTIN; SUPERPARAMAGNETIC IRON OXIDE NANOPARTICLE; NANOPARTICLE;

ANGIOSPERM; APOPLAST; BIOACCUMULATION; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL WALL; CYTOARCHITECTURE; DROUGHT TOLERANCE; ENDOCYTOSIS; FOOD CROP; INTERNALIZATION; MUCILAGE; MYCORRHIZA; PHYTOPLANKTON; PHYTOTOXICITY; PLANT CELL; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT LEAF; PLANT ROOT; PLASMODESMA; POROSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOPLAST; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; ROOT HAIR; TRICHOME; XYLEM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; METABOLISM; PLANT; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL;

BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NANOPARTICLES; PLANTS;

EID: 84959316183     PISSN: 17435390     EISSN: 17435404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/17435390.2015.1048326     Document Type: Review

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