Plant in vitro culture goes nano: Nanosilver-mediated decontamination of ex vitro explants
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Plant tissue culture is a basic and fundamental component of plant biotechnology, and progress in different fields of biotechnology greatly depends on the improvement of this technique.Nowadays, nanomaterials especially Nanosilver [NS], are regularly being used as an antimicrobial agent in medical and environmental fields.In order to assay the efficiency of NS in sterilizing plant seeds and fragile tissues, such as leaf and cotyledon, two important model plants, Arabidopsis and tomato, as well as potato as an important cultivated crop, were used as explants in this study.Briefly, samples soaked in different concentrations of NS with various exposure times, and then transferred onto the MS medium.Results showed that at lower concentrations, NS could function as an antimicrobial agent with no side effect on the explant viability, and consequently, all decontaminated seeds germinated, and leaf and cotyledon explants survived.
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Ag NP treatments led to successful surface sterilization of cotyledons, leaves or seeds of Arabidopsis, G × N15 rootstock, potato, Rosa hybrida, and tomato.
“Few reports have confirmed that Ag NP treatments led to successful surface sterilization of cotyledons, leaves or seeds of Arabidopsis, G × N15 (hybrid of almond × peach) rootstock, potato, Rosa hybrida, and tomato [16,17,18,19].”
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The Results and Discussion report nanosilver decontamination of Arabidopsis seeds, potato leaves, and tomato cotyledons. This paper does not report treatment of G × N15 rootstock or Rosa hybrida; those parts of the multi-citation sentence are not supported by this source. (LLM, conf=0.88)
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- Authors
- Mahna, N.
- Affiliations
- University of Tabriz (IR)
- Corresponding author
- Mahna, Nasser
- ORCID
- Mahna, Nasser
- Venue
- Journal of Nanomedicine & Nanotechnology
- Publisher
- OMICS Publishing Group
- Published
- 2013
- Volume
- 04
- Issue
- 02
- ISSN
- 2157-7439 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2327320167
- Cited by
- 55
- References
- 28
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- FWCI
- 0.60
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- other-oa
- Locations
- Journal of Nanomedicine & Nanotechnology (publishedVersion, other-oa)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Plant tissue culture and regeneration
- Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Materials Chemistry › Nanoparticles: synthesis and applications
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Plant Science › Plant Disease Management Techniques
- Keywords
- silver nanoparticles, plant tissue culture, seed disinfection, antimicrobial nanomaterials, explant viability, Arabidopsis, tomato, potato, cotyledon explants, leaf explants
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