Interaction of Nanomaterials with Plant Macromolecules: Nucleic Acid, Proteins and Hormones

Title

Interaction of Nanomaterials with Plant Macromolecules: Nucleic Acid, Proteins and Hormones

Creator

Mascarenhas R.; Mathur T.; Maheshwari J.; Nagella P.

Description

Nanotechnology has the ability to change a wide range of industrial and agricultural operations. To harness these possibilities, it is essential to construct nano-materials that have minimum impact on the human body, plant systems as well as the environment. Using different materials can up-or down-regulate diverse genes of plants, create stimulating or stressful conditions and even cause production of metabolites that affect plant-associated microbes. The same nanoparticle can promote one plant species growth and be toxic to another. A small change in the concen-trations could cause either flourishment or senescence. It is crucial to understand how nanomaterials interact with nucleic acids, the most fundamental plant macro-molecule, as well as with the proteins and hormones made by biochemical processes. This chapter explores the basics of nanotechnology, with a brief classification and notes on some of the most recently used nanomaterials in agriculture such as metals and their oxides, quantum dots, graphene, arabinoxylan and chitosan nanoparticles, single and multi-walled carbon nanotubes. Interactions with these above-mentioned macromolecules are explored, along with futuristic applications in plants that are currently being tested, like nanocarriers and nanovalves. Through this work, it is hoped that the field will further be extended through proper understanding of the environmental implications of nanomaterials, and that green technology will become the norm. The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023.

Source

Nanomaterial Interactions with Plant Cellular Mechanisms and Macromolecules and Agricultural Implications, pp. 231-271.

Date

2023-01-01

Publisher

Springer International Publishing

Subject

Macromolecules; Nanomaterials; Nucleic acids; Plant hormones; Proteins

Coverage

Mascarenhas R., Department of Life Sciences, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Karnataka, Bangalore, 560 029, India; Mathur T., Department of Life Sciences, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Karnataka, Bangalore, 560 029, India; Maheshwari J., Manipal School of Life Sciences, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Karnataka, Bangalore, 560 029, India; Nagella P., Department of Life Sciences, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Karnataka, Bangalore, 560 029, India

Rights

Restricted Access

Relation

ISBN: 978-303120878-2; 978-303120877-5

Format

Online

Language

English

Type

Book chapter

Identifier

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20878-2_9

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