Nanobiotechnology-based strategies for enhanced crop stress resilience
State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse · Nanjing University · +3 more institutions
Abstract
Nanobiotechnology approaches to engineering crops with enhanced stress tolerance may be a safe and sustainable strategy to increase crop yield. Under stress conditions, cellular redox homeostasis is disturbed, resulting in the over-accumulation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) that damage biomolecules (lipids, proteins and DNA) and inhibit crop growth and yield. Delivering ROS-scavenging nanomaterials to plants has been shown to alleviate abiotic stress. Here we review the current state of knowledge of using ROS-scavenging nanomaterials to enhance plant stress tolerance. When present below a threshold level, ROS can mediate redox signalling and defence pathways that foster plant acclimatization against stress.…
Citation impact
- FWCI
- 17.03
- Percentile
- 100%
- References
- 68
Authors
6- LZLijuan Zhao
State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, Nanjing University
- TBTonghao Bai
State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, Nanjing University
- HWHui Wei
Nanjing University
- JLJorge L. Gardea‐Torresdey
The University of Texas at El Paso
- AAArturo A. Keller
University of California, Santa Barbara
Topics & keywords
- Resilience (materials science)
- Nanobiotechnology
- Crop
- Stress (linguistics)
- Nanotechnology
- Biology
- Agronomy
- Materials science