| Carbon Nanotubes as Plant Growth Regulators: Effects on Tomato Growth, Reproductive System, and Soil Microbial Community. | |
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PMID: 23019062 Owner: NLM Status: Publisher |
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Multi-walled carbon nanotubes (CNTs) can affect plant phenotype and the composition of soil microbiota. Tomato plants grown in soil supplemented with CNTs produce two times more flowers and fruit compared to plants grown in control soil. The effect of carbon nanotubes on microbial community of CNT-treated soil is determined by denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis and pyrosequencing analysis. Phylogenetic analysis indicates that Proteobacteria and Bacteroidetes are the most dominant groups in the microbial community of soil. The relative abundances of Bacteroidetes and Firmicutes are found to increase, whereas Proteobacteria and Verrucomicorbia decrease with increasing concentration of CNTs. The results of comparing diversity indices and species level phylotypes (OTUs) between samples showed that there is not a significant affect on bacterial diversity. |
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Mariya V Khodakovskaya; Bong-Soo Kim; Jong Nam Kim; Mohammad Alimohammadi; Enkeleda Dervishi; Thikra Mustafa; Carl E Cernigla |
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Type: JOURNAL ARTICLE Date: 2012-9-28 |
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Title: Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) Volume: - ISSN: 1613-6829 ISO Abbreviation: Small Publication Date: 2012 Sep |
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Created Date: 2012-9-28 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 101235338 Medline TA: Small Country: - |
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Languages: ENG Pagination: - Citation Subset: - |
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Copyright © 2012 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim. |
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Department of Applied Science, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, AR, 72204, USA. mvkhodakovsk@ualr.edu. |
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