Journal
NANOMATERIALS
Volume 11, Issue 7, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/nano11071722
Keywords
cellular uptake; cytotoxicity; stomata; trichomes; chlorophyll fluorescence; elemental analysis
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- Russian Science Foundation [21-77-20089]
- Russian Science Foundation [21-77-20089] Funding Source: Russian Science Foundation
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The study showed that zinc oxide nanoparticles inhibit the growth of spring barley by affecting chlorophyll fluorescence emissions and causing deformations in stomatal and trichome morphology, as well as disruptions in cellular organizations, leading to reduced photosynthetic activities.
The aim of the present work was to investigate the toxic effects of zinc oxide nanoparticles (ZnO NPs, particle size < 50 nm) on the physiological and anatomical indices of spring barley (Hordeum sativum L.). The results show that ZnO NPs inhibited H. sativum growth by affecting the chlorophyll fluorescence emissions and causing deformations of the stomatal and trichome morphology, alterations to the cellular organizations, including irregularities of the chloroplasts, and disruptions to the grana and thylakoid organizations. There was a lower number of chloroplasts per cell observed in the H. sativum leaf cells treated with ZnO NPs as compared to the non-treated plants. Cytomorphometric quantification revealed that ZnO NPs decreased the size of the chloroplast by 1.5 and 4 times in 300 and 2000 mg/L ZnO NP-treated plants, respectively. The elemental analysis showed higher Zn accumulation in the treated leaf tissues (3.8 and 10.18-fold with 300 and 2000 mg/L ZnO NPs, respectively) than the untreated. High contents of Zn were observed in several spots in ZnO NP-treated leaf tissues using X-ray fluorescence. Deviations in the anatomical indices were significantly correlated with physiological observations. The accumulation of Zn content in plant tissues that originated from ZnO NPs was shown to cause damage to the structural organization of the photosynthetic apparatus and reduced the photosynthetic activities.
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