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Investigating the toxicity, uptake, nanoparticle formation and genetic response of plants to gold.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2014
Taylor Andrew F, Rylott Elizabeth L, Anderson Christopher W N, Bruce Neil C
Abstract excerpt
We have studied the physiological and genetic responses of Arabidopsis thaliana L. (Arabidopsis) to gold. The root lengths of Arabidopsis seedlings grown on nutrient agar plates containing 100 mg/L gold were reduced by 75%. Oxidized gold was subsequently found in roots and shoots of these plants, but gold nanoparticles (reduced gold) were only observed in the root tissues. We used a microarray-based study to...
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