Nano Carbon Applications for Plant

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com could be used as a nutrient carrier for macro and micro elements that may reduce their higher concentrations which are usually used. Carbon nanotubes applications in agriculture showed very promising results [4]. It takes an important role due to its competitive mechanical, electrical, thermal and chemical properties [3]. Single and multi-walled CNTs special properties could be benefit for researches in the field of agriculture and food. Recently, some researches had shown that carbon nanotubes treatment encouraged growth, branching and other aspects of plant growth parameters. Multi-walled CNTs might act as regulators for seed germination and growth or could organize the marker genes to enhance cell culture growth by increasing cell divisions, cell wall formation and water transport. It was found that CNTs can penetrate coat of tomato seeds and induce germination and growth [5,6]. In addition, the engineered CNTs could induce germination of seed [4], growth and development of plants [7]. However, in some researches, multi-walled CNTs did not found to show a positive effect on seed germination in many plants [8,9]. Some other studies faced the potential toxicity of multi-walled CNTs in plant cells [10-13]. This could be due to the higher concentrations used or the sensitivity of some plants or some of their growth stages in those investigations [14].