Is airborne graphene oxide a possible hazard for the sexual reproduction of wind-pollinated plants?
Airborne nanoparticles
Anemophilous flowers
Graphene oxide
Pollen-stigma interaction
Journal
The Science of the total environment
ISSN: 1879-1026
Titre abrégé: Sci Total Environ
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 0330500
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
15 Jul 2022
15 Jul 2022
Historique:
received:
07
02
2022
revised:
10
03
2022
accepted:
13
03
2022
pubmed:
21
3
2022
medline:
27
5
2022
entrez:
20
3
2022
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Products containing graphene-related materials (GRMs) are becoming increasingly common, allowing GRM nanoparticles (NPs) to enter the environment during their life cycle. Thanks to their lightness and bidimensional geometry, GRM NPs can be easily dispersed in the air and travel very long distances. The flowers of wind-pollinated plants may be exposed to airborne GRMs, being apt to intercept pollen from the air and, inevitably, other airborne particles. Here, stigmas of four wind-pollinated plants (Corylus avellana, common hazel; Juglans regia, walnut; Quercus ilex, holm oak; Zea mays, maize) were exposed to airborne graphene oxide (GO) and GO purified from production residues (PGO) at a concentration of 3.7 ng m
Identifiants
pubmed: 35306080
pii: S0048-9697(22)01718-1
doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.154625
pii:
doi:
Substances chimiques
graphene oxide
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Water
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Graphite
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Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
154625Informations de copyright
Copyright © 2022 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.