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Characterization of Nanomaterials Using Different Techniques
The reduction in size through top-down and bottom-up approaches causes difference in the physical, chemical, and biological properties as compared to...
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Applications of mass spectrometry imaging in botanical research
Mass spectrometry imaging (MSI) serves as a valuable tool enabling researchers to scrutinize various compounds, peptides, and proteins within a...
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Perspectives on new opportunities for nano-enabled strategies for gene delivery to plants using nanoporous materials
Main conclusionEngineered nanocarriers have great potential to deliver different genetic cargos to plant cells and increase the efficiency of plant...
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Treatability of wood for pressure treatment processes: a literature review
Inadequate and non-uniform penetration of preservatives into refractory wood species is a main concern in the wood preservation industry for pressure...
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High-Throughput Phenoty** Methods for Economic Traits and Designer Plant Types as Tools to Support Modern Breeding Efforts
Breeding is evolving toward a much closer integration of high-throughput phenoty** (HTP) tools and technologies, which can target extremely precise...
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Effects of Engineered Nanoparticles at Various Growth Stages of Crop Plants
This chapter highlights interactions of nanomaterials with plants at the level of plant life cycle stages: germination, seedling development, growth,...
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Trabecular bone organoids: a micron-scale ‘humanised’ prototype designed to study the effects of microgravity and degeneration
Bone is a highly responsive organ, which continuously adapts to the environment it is subjected to in order to withstand metabolic demands. These...
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The cellular landscape by cryo soft X-ray tomography
Imaging techniques in structural cell biology are indispensable to understand cell organization and machinery. In this frame, cryo soft X-ray...
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Sorghum Germplasm for Enhanced Productivity and Nutrition
Sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench] is an important crop in the semi-arid tropics and being cultivated in about 110 countries. The rate of genetic...
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A Simple Method to Determine the Fractions of Labile and Mineral-Bound Microelements in Bone Tissue by Atomic Absorption Spectrometry
In this work a simple and inexpensive method to assess the concentration ratio of the labile and mineral-bound microelements of the bone tissue was...
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The Future of Soil Science in Italy
This chapter addresses the future of soil science from an Italian perspective. It complements a previously published work, “Future Soil Issues”, in...
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Environmental and Climate Proxies Embedded in Coral Skeletons
Scleractinian (hard layered) corals live for several centuries or longer in the tropical surface waters that comprise about half of the total surface...
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Soil Sensing
In addition to the overview of diversity in soil sensing technologies, this chapter presents four case studies to illustrate the practical use of...
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Environmental Toxicity of Nanopesticides Against Non-Target Organisms: The State of the Art
Nanopesticides is a promising technology for agricultural productivity and innovation. The emergent field of nanopesticides associated with their...
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Synthesis and Characterization of Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles and Their Impact on Plants
Nanotechnology as a novel scientific approach to sustainable agriculture has gained considerable attention. Taking metal oxide nanoparticles into...
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Advanced Nuclear and Related Techniques for Metallomics and Nanometallomics
Metallomics, focusing on the global and systematic understanding of the metal uptake, trafficking, role, and excretion in biological systems, has...
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Bioimaging Metallomics
This chapter focuses on bioimaging in metallomics, which involves metal and metalloids distribution in animal tissues. It starts with laser...
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Assessment of Toxic Metals and Hazardous Substances in Tattoo Inks Using Sy-XRF, AAS, and Raman Spectroscopy
Synchrotron radiation X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy, in conjunction with atomic absorption and Raman spectroscopy, was used to analyze a set of top...
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Microbial Life and Death in a Foxing Stain: a Suggested Mechanism of Photographic Prints Defacement
The gelatin-silver halide black and white prints represent an enormous photography heritage with a great value. Unaesthetic phenomena, the foxing...
