Advance in ‘nano-agriculture’: Tiny stuff has huge effect on plant growth (EurekAlert!)
( American Chemical Society ) With potential adverse health and environmental effects often in the news about nanotechnology, scientists in Arkansas are reporting that carbon nanotubes could have beneficial effects in agriculture. Their study, scheduled for the October issue of ACS Nano, a monthly journal, found that tomato seeds exposed to CNTs germinated faster and grew into larger, heavier …
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