Engineered Nanomaterials as an Enabling Bionic Strategy for Acceleration of Plant Growth = Engineered Nanomaterials as an Enabling Bionic Strategy for Acceleration of Plant Growth

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It is an important challenge to control and accelerate growth of plants in the world. In this work, we propose a novel bionic strategy for controlling and accelerating plant growth using engineered nanomaterials. It is usually recognized that nanomaterials might influence toxicity in plant growth; however, we here demonstrated that engineered nanomaterials can be used as interesting tools for the acceleration of plant growth as well as biosensor platforms. As a model study, we treated engineered nanomaterials to the Arabidopsis thaliana in the agar plates. Interestingly, we showed that our engineered nanomaterials with various concentrations could affect the plant growth in terms of the length of roots, the area of leaves, and the number of leaves, and the formation of the flower buds. We believe that the engineered nanomaterials could provide positive effects as an enabling bionic strategy for the acceleration of plant growth.