Recent Advances in Plant Nanoscience

Abstract

Plants have complex internal signaling pathways to quickly adjust to environmental changes and harvest energy from the environment. Facing the growing population, there is an urgent need for plant transformation and precise monitoring of plant growth to improve crop yields. Nanotechnology, an interdisciplinary research field, has recently been boosting plant yields and meeting global energy needs. In this context, a new field, "plant nanoscience," which describes the interaction between plants and nanotechnology, emerges as the times require. Nanosensors, nanofertilizers, nanopesticides, and nano-plant genetic engineering are of great help in increasing crop yields. Nanogenerators are helping to develop the potential of plants in the field of energy harvesting. Furthermore, the uptake and internalization of nanomaterials in plants and the possible effects are also worthy of attention. In this review, a forward-looking perspective on the plant nanoscience is presented and feasible solutions for future food shortages and energy crises are provided.

Synthesis and characterization of functionalized nanoparticles for lactase immobilization

“…As already mentioned, the use of new methods are developed through technologies that are modernized every day, nanotechnology is in this context, as it is a technique on the rise, as its potential grows in various human sectors and also for being a relatively new technique. recent compared to the others (Zhang et al, 2022).…”

Flexible Aggregation-Induced Emission-Active Hydrogel for On-Site Monitoring of Pesticide Degradation

“…Understanding the behavior of pesticide degradation is conducive to fine-tuning the resource inputs, which is of great instructive significance for enhancing pesticide utilization efficiency and reducing pesticide exposures. The sensors are intended to monitor plant health by profiling trait pesticides, which is beneficial to enabling sustainable agricultural production. − We evaluated the performance of the hydrogel discs by timely monitoring the degradation of pesticides in Chinese cabbages using the portable device (Figure a). To correctly investigate pesticide degradation, the working equation was fitted in the Chinese cabbage matrix (Figure b,c), which can be used to quantify chlorpyrifos residues.…”

An efficient and broadly applicable method for transient transformation of plants using vertically aligned carbon nanofiber arrays

“…Specifically, in Izuegbunam et al (2021), the authors used needleless syringes to deliver nanorods with anchored DNA to developing seed tissues in Arabidopsis, field mustard, barley, and wheat. This method, like the aforementioned nanomaterialmediated delivery of DNA (Demirer et al, 2019;Jat et al, 2020;Zhang et al, 2022b), requires the conjugation of DNA to nanorods and subsequent release of DNA once inside cells.…”

“…Using the fibers in this manner is minimally invasive and was not found to be toxic or damaging to the plant ( Davern et al., 2016 ). Importantly, these methods do not require fibers to be surface functionalized, unlike other existing methods ( Demirer et al., 2019 ; Jat et al., 2020 ; Zhang et al., 2022b ), and the fibers can be used to deliver different sized vectors. With the exception of hypocotyls, all plant organs that we tested could be transformed using VACNFs: leaves (Arabidopsis, poplar, lettuce, and N. benthamiana ), roots (Arabidopsis) and fruit (tomato; Figures 2 – 6 ).…”