Plant Protoplasts: Rational Design Principles for the Transport and Subcellular Distribution of Nanomaterials into Plant Protoplasts (Small 44/2018)

In article number 1802086, Michael S. Strano and co-workers develop an experimentally verified model to predict the passive transport of nanoparticles into plant protoplasts and chloroplasts. The surface charge and size of the nanoparticles are found to be the critical parameters that determine the subcellular localization of nanoparticles. The work demonstrates that nanoparticles can be rationally designed to target subcellular compartments in plant cells for plant biology and engineering applications.