Carbon nanotubes are able to penetrate plant seed coat and dramatically affect seed germination and plant growth.

By Mariya V. Khodakovskaya, Enkeleda Dervishi, M. Mahmood, Yang Xu, Zhongrui Li, Fumiya Watanabe, A. Biris. ACS Nano, 2009

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Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Materials Chemistry, Organic Chemistry

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Carbon nanomaterials: production, impact on plant development, agricultural and environmental applications (2016, methodology): “A combination of Raman spectroscopy and TEM was employed for detection of CNTs in tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) [154], wheat (Triticum aestivum) [171] and red spinach (Amaranthus tricolor) [122] seedlings and in tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) cell cultures [165].”
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Beneficial role of carbon nanotubes on mustard plant growth: an agricultural prospect (2011, background): “Penetration capability of CNTs through hard seed coat has very recently been reported by Khodakovskaya et al. (2009) .”