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ReviewHeliyon2022

Silica nanoparticles as novel sustainable approach for plant growth and crop protection.

Pooja Goswami, Jyoti Mathur, Nidhi Srivastava

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Review in Heliyon, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers.

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25citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

25 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles in Biomedicine: Advances and Prospects.Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) · 2026
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  12. Synthesis of FePlants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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  15. Unravelling the effects of nano SiOScientific reports · 2024
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  17. Silicon nanoparticlesFrontiers in plant science · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Pooja GoswamiDepartment of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Banasthali Vidyapith, Banasthali Tonk, Rajasthan, 304022, India.
Jyoti MathurDepartment of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Banasthali Vidyapith, Banasthali Tonk, Rajasthan, 304022, India.
Nidhi SrivastavaDepartment of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Banasthali Vidyapith, Banasthali Tonk, Rajasthan, 304022, India.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Agriculture crops encounter several biotic and abiotic stresses, including pests, diseases, nutritional deficits, and climate change, which necessitate the development of new agricultural technologies. By developing nano-based fertilizers, insecticides and herbicides, and early disease diagnostics, nanotechnology may help to increase agricultural crop quality and production. The application of silica nanoparticles (SiNPs) may be the solution for increasing the yield to combat the agriculture crisis in the near future. SiNPs have unique physiological properties, such as large surface area, aggregation, reactivity, penetrating ability, size, and structure, which enable them to penetrate plants and regulate their metabolic processes. Pesticide delivery, enhanced nutrition supply, disease management, and higher photosynthetic efficiency and germination rate are all attributed to SiNPs deposition on plant tissue surfaces. SiNPs have been demonstrated to be non-toxic in nature, making them suitable for usage in agriculture. In this regard, the current work provides the most important and contemporary applications of SiNPs in agriculture as well as biogenic and non-biogenic synthetic techniques. As a result, this review summarizes the literature on SiNPs and explores the use of SiNPs in a variety of agricultural disciplines.

Indexed as

Agricultural-wasteFertilizersHerbicidesPesticidesSilica nanoparticles

Identifiers

PMID35847613
PMCPMC9284391

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