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Nanomaterials Act as Plant Defense Mechanism

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Plants symbolize the prevalent edge between the environment and biosphere, so discovering how nanomaterials affect them is particularly significant for ecological assessments. Metal-based nanoparticles (NPs) can cause toxicity to terrestrial plants; however, there is little understanding of plant defense mechanisms that may counteract nanotoxicity. The occurrence of oxidative pressure is one of the major biochemical alterations following nanoparticle exposure, and it changes the balance between cell function and antioxidative defense mechanisms. Biochemical aspects generally cause the production of excess reactive oxygen species (ROS), disturbing membrane transport mechanisms, oxidative harm to the cell membrane, and DNA degradation. Globally plants had developed the antioxidant mechanism which tends to eliminate the access manufacture of ROS i.e. H2O2, OH− and O2 free radicals. Improved levels of antioxidative enzymes, for instance, superoxide dismutase (SOD), catalase (CAT), and peroxidase (POX), are able to support plant cells in lightening the oxidative stress induced by different nanostructures. As the vital signals resolving defense gene establishment, ROS are principally drawn in the initiation of plant disease resistance responses. Further reviews are still needed to understand plant defense mechanism against the potential hazards of nanomaterials.

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    Ram Prasad, Nomita Gupta, Manoj Kumar & Vivek Kumar

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Prasad, R., Gupta, N., Kumar, M., Kumar, V., Wang, S., Abd-Elsalam, K.A. (2017). Nanomaterials Act as Plant Defense Mechanism. In: Prasad, R., Kumar, V., Kumar, M. (eds) Nanotechnology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4678-0_14

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