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Plant Response to Silicon Nanoparticles: Growth Performance and Defense Mechanisms

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Nanomaterials and Nanocomposites Exposures to Plants

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Silicon is recognized as a quasiessential element for plants that has proven to be crucial for plant growth and development. Silicon regulates a number of physiological processes, such as vegetative growth, germination, photosynthesis and stress tolerance in plants. Despite its known advantages, the optimal utilization of silicon is challenged by scarcity of readily-available monosilicic acid in soil and low efficiency shown by silicon based fertilizers. This has led to the exploration of alternative systems to ensure silicon availability to the plants. Nanotechnology has proven to be extremely useful in overcoming this shortfall of traditional agriculture system by developing silicon nanoparticles. These nanosized silicon-based particles have been effectively used to promote plant growth and plant defense mechanism, quality and yield of the plant. Several physical, chemical and biological methods have been designed to create silicon nanoparticles for different uses and their applications have been studied in a wide variety of plants. The present work is a compilation of studies performed on silicon nanoparticles, their development, usage and applications.

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Tina, Pal, V., Chauhan, K., Pant, K., Pant, G., Pant, M. (2023). Plant Response to Silicon Nanoparticles: Growth Performance and Defense Mechanisms. In: Husen, A. (eds) Nanomaterials and Nanocomposites Exposures to Plants. Smart Nanomaterials Technology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-2419-6_9

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