Impact of nanoparticles on biogeochemical processes in soil-plant system under heavy metals stress; exploring remediation mechanism and plant health status.
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| Název: | Impact of nanoparticles on biogeochemical processes in soil-plant system under heavy metals stress; exploring remediation mechanism and plant health status. |
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| Autoři: | Hussain B; School of Environment and Resource, Key Laboratory of Solid Waste Treatment and Resource Recycle of Ministry of Education, Southwest University of Science and Technology, Mianyang, 621010, Sichuan, China. babar.ses@gmail.com., Javed K; Department of Plant Pathology, Agriculture College, Guizhou University, Guiyang, 550025, China., Ali M; State Key Laboratory of Ore Deposit Geochemistry, Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guiyang, 550081, China., Ullah S; State Key Laboratory of Geohazard Prevention and Geoenvironment Protection, Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu, 610059, People's Republic of China., Sun S; School of Environment and Resource, Key Laboratory of Solid Waste Treatment and Resource Recycle of Ministry of Education, Southwest University of Science and Technology, Mianyang, 621010, Sichuan, China. shysun@swust.edu.cn., Idris AM; Department of Chemistry, College of Science, King Khalid University, 62529, Abha, Saudi Arabia.; Research Center for Advanced Materials Science (RCAMS), King Khalid University, 62529, Abha, Saudi Arabia., Singh S; Centre of Research Impact and Outcome, Chitkara University, Rajpura, 140417, Punjab, India.; Division of Research and development, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, Punjab, India. |
| Zdroj: | Environmental geochemistry and health [Environ Geochem Health] 2025 Dec 06; Vol. 48 (1), pp. 31. Date of Electronic Publication: 2025 Dec 06. |
| Způsob vydávání: | Journal Article; Review |
| Jazyk: | English |
| Informace o časopise: | Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers Country of Publication: Netherlands NLM ID: 8903118 Publication Model: Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1573-2983 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 02694042 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Environ Geochem Health Subsets: MEDLINE |
| Imprint Name(s): | Publication: 1999- : Dordrecht : Kluwer Academic Publishers Original Publication: Kew, Surrey : Science and Technology Letters, 1985- |
| Výrazy ze slovníku MeSH: | Metals, Heavy*/toxicity , Metals, Heavy*/metabolism , Soil Pollutants*/toxicity , Soil Pollutants*/metabolism , Soil Pollutants*/chemistry , Plants*/drug effects , Plants*/metabolism , Environmental Restoration and Remediation* , Metal Nanoparticles*/chemistry , Metal Nanoparticles*/toxicity, Soil/chemistry ; Biodegradation, Environmental ; Stress, Physiological |
| Abstrakt: | Although, NPs have potential to improved plant resistance against abiotic stress, increased nutrient usage efficiency, and sustenance of agricultural production. However, reactions of NPs in soil matrices, particularly their movement, perseverance, and biogeochemical reactions in soil-plant system under heavy metals (HMs) were not well understood. Therefore, this review presents the latest research in order to clarify the molecular interactions, beneficial transformations, and detoxification processes of NPs in plants and evaluates their roles in these processes. It further aims to quantify the benefits and risks, and give future directions for NPs design and applications in environmental remediation and agriculture. NPs significantly enhanced agricultural outcomes through mechanisms such as regulating HMs uptake, boosting antioxidant enzyme activity (up to a 60% increase), altering soil properties, and optimizing physiological metabolism. NPs amendments raised crop output by 20-55% while reducing disease and nutrient leaching to 50% and 30%, respectively, and improving the soil's carbon sink by 15%. Meanwhile, green-synthesized nanomaterials offer eco-friendly alternatives in remediation through processes like adsorption, oxidation, coprecipitation, ion-exchange, photocatalysis, and nanophytoremediation, achieving 100% pollutant removal efficiency for elements like hexavalent chromium using iron NPs. However, challenges such as NPs accumulation in food chains, potential toxicity to non-target species, and physiological disruptions necessitate solutions like microbiome co-delivery and stimuli-responsive systems to balance safety and effectiveness. In order to increase the available resources and address the worldwide food safety issue, the use of NPs in agroecosystems might be a crucial step towards sustainable farming. Therefore, the influence of NPs on soil, and plant antioxidant defense systems and oxidative stress activation under HMs should be studied using molecular, physiological, and biochemical techniques. For this purpose, real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) analysis, illumina MiSeq sequencing, pyrosequencing analysis, metagenomics, metabolomics, proteomics, and functional assays etc. could be most useful for NPs risk/benefit evaluation. (© 2025. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature B.V.) |
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| Contributed Indexing: | Keywords: Heavy metals; Metal stress alleviation; Nanoparticles; Plant development; Remediation mechanism; Soil health |
| Substance Nomenclature: | 0 (Metals, Heavy) 0 (Soil Pollutants) 0 (Soil) |
| Entry Date(s): | Date Created: 20251206 Date Completed: 20251206 Latest Revision: 20251206 |
| Update Code: | 20251206 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10653-025-02919-6 |
| PMID: | 41351776 |
| Databáze: | MEDLINE |
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Nájsť tento článok vo Web of Science | Abstrakt: | Although, NPs have potential to improved plant resistance against abiotic stress, increased nutrient usage efficiency, and sustenance of agricultural production. However, reactions of NPs in soil matrices, particularly their movement, perseverance, and biogeochemical reactions in soil-plant system under heavy metals (HMs) were not well understood. Therefore, this review presents the latest research in order to clarify the molecular interactions, beneficial transformations, and detoxification processes of NPs in plants and evaluates their roles in these processes. It further aims to quantify the benefits and risks, and give future directions for NPs design and applications in environmental remediation and agriculture. NPs significantly enhanced agricultural outcomes through mechanisms such as regulating HMs uptake, boosting antioxidant enzyme activity (up to a 60% increase), altering soil properties, and optimizing physiological metabolism. NPs amendments raised crop output by 20-55% while reducing disease and nutrient leaching to 50% and 30%, respectively, and improving the soil's carbon sink by 15%. Meanwhile, green-synthesized nanomaterials offer eco-friendly alternatives in remediation through processes like adsorption, oxidation, coprecipitation, ion-exchange, photocatalysis, and nanophytoremediation, achieving 100% pollutant removal efficiency for elements like hexavalent chromium using iron NPs. However, challenges such as NPs accumulation in food chains, potential toxicity to non-target species, and physiological disruptions necessitate solutions like microbiome co-delivery and stimuli-responsive systems to balance safety and effectiveness. In order to increase the available resources and address the worldwide food safety issue, the use of NPs in agroecosystems might be a crucial step towards sustainable farming. Therefore, the influence of NPs on soil, and plant antioxidant defense systems and oxidative stress activation under HMs should be studied using molecular, physiological, and biochemical techniques. For this purpose, real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) analysis, illumina MiSeq sequencing, pyrosequencing analysis, metagenomics, metabolomics, proteomics, and functional assays etc. could be most useful for NPs risk/benefit evaluation.<br /> (© 2025. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature B.V.) |
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| ISSN: | 1573-2983 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10653-025-02919-6 |