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ECOTOXICOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY
Volume 170, Issue -, Pages 324-330Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2018.12.002
Keywords
Ag-nanoparticles; Homologous recombination-related genes; Transcriptional gene silencing; Salicylic acid; Plant systemic response; Arabidopsis thaliana
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Funding
- National Basic Research 973 Program [2014CB932002]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [11575233]
- Youth Innovation Promotion Association of Chinese Academy of Sciences [2017485]
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The extensive availability of engineered nanomaterials in global markets has led to the release of substantial amounts of nanoparticles (NP) into atmosphere, water body and soil, yielding both beneficial and harmful effects in plant systems. The NP are mainly aggregated onto the surface of plant roots and leaves exposed and only slightly transported into other tissues with a low rate of internalization. This raises a question of whether plant systemic response is involved in the induction of biological effects of NP. To address this, model plant Arabidopsis thaliana were root exposed to low concentrations of Ag-NP of two particle sizes (10-nm and 60-nm), and expressions of homologous recombination (HR)-related genes and the alleviation of transcriptional gene silencing (TGS) in aerial leafy tissues were examined as genotoxic endpoints. Results showed that exposure of roots to two sizes of Ag-NP up-regulated expressions of HR genes, and reactivated TGS-silenced repetitive elements in aerial tissues. These effects were blocked by the impairment in the salicylic acid signal pathway, indicating a potential involvement of plant systemic response in the induction of Ag-NP genotoxicity. This is further supported by ICP-MS analysis, in which the Ag content in aerial tissues was not significantly changed by root exposure to 10-nm Ag-NP. Although a significant increase in the Ag content in aerial tissues was observed after root exposure to 60-nm Ag-NP, its genotoxic effects had no obvious difference from that by 10-nm Ag-NP exposure, also suggesting that the genotoxicity might be mainly induced via plant systemic response, at least in the experiments of root exposure to Ag-NP.
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