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Vertical transport and plant uptake of nanoparticles in a soil mesocosm experiment

Alexander Gogos, Janine Moll, Florian Klingenfuss, Marcel G. A. van der Heijden, Fahmida Irin, Micah J. Green, Renato Zenobi, Thomas D. Bucheli

Journal of Nanobiotechnology · 2016

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Summary

BACKGROUND: Agricultural soils represent a potential sink for increasing amounts of different nanomaterials that nowadays inevitably enter the environment. Knowledge on the relation between their actual exposure concentrations and biological effects on crops and symbiotic organisms is therefore of high importance. In this part of a joint companion study, we describe the vertical translocation as well as plant uptake of three different titanium dioxide (nano-)particles (TiO2 NPs) and multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) within a pot experiment with homogenously spiked natural agricultural soil and two plant species (red clover and wheat). RESULTS: TiO2 NPs exhibited limited mobility from soil to leachates and did not induce significant titanium uptake into both plant species, although ave

Subject
Cereals & grains
Source type
Peer-reviewed study
System type
Other
DOI
10.1186/s12951-016-0191-z
Catalogue ID
BFmom381jl-kqf9xg
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