Bioresponse to Nanotubes: Surface Chemistry of Carbon Nanotubes Impacts the Growth and Expression of Water Channel Protein in Tomato Plants (Small 15/2012)

A tomato plant grows on medium supplemented with multi-walled carbon nanotubes. The correlations between the level of aggregation, the type of functional group on the surface of applied carbon nanotubes, plant growth performance and the expression of tomato water channel protein in the cell membranes of roots exposed to multi-walled carbon nanotubes are documented and discussed by A. S. Biris, M. V. Khodakovskaya, and co-workers.