Emerging investigator series: molecular mechanisms of plant salinity stress tolerance improvement by seed priming with cerium oxide nanoparticles
Jing An, Peiguang Hu, Fangjun Li, Honghong Wu, Yu Shen, Jason C. White, Xiaoli Tian, Zhaohu Li, Juan Pablo Giraldo
Abstract
Engineered nanomaterials interfaced with plant seeds can improve stress tolerance during the vulnerable seedling stage.
Topics & Concepts
Cerium oxideSeedlingPriming (agriculture)SalinityNanomaterialsNanoparticleStress (linguistics)Materials scienceOxideAgronomyNanotechnologyBiologyMetallurgyEcologyLinguisticsPhilosophyNanoparticles: synthesis and applicationsCarbon and Quantum Dots ApplicationsSelenium in Biological Systems