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nanoparticles (NPs) on seed germination and yield of forage oat (Avena sativa) and berseem
(Trifolium alexandrinum). PNAS India Biol Sci B. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40011-016-0796-x
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influence seed germination traits and seed pathogen infection rate in forage sorghum (Sorghum
bicolor) and cowpea (Vigna unguiculata). Indian J Exp Biol 56:363–372
Mao X, Yang L, Su XL, Li Y (2006) A nanoparticle amplification based quartz crystal microbalance DNA sensor for detection of Escherichia coli O157:H7. Biosens Bioelectron
21:1178–1185
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Biomol Chem 5:2335–2342
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nanoparticulate TiO2 films. J Photochem Photobiol A Chem 182:43–51. https://doi.org/10.
1016/j.jphotochem.2006.01.010
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coastal marine environments: bioavailability and toxic effects to the phytoplankton
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nanoparticles. J Agric Food Chem 60:3991–3998
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6(2):73–77
Mousavi SR, Rezaei M (2011) Nanotechnology in agriculture and food production. J Appl Environ
Biol Sci 1(10):414–419
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Sci Appl 7:63–71. Available online at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4130717/
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4(8):467–470
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nano and bulk-size particles. Environ Toxicol. https://doi.org/10.1002/tox.20667
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Agric Crop Sci 5(19):2229–2232
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en/sgrc/pac/motor/item/1327-european-nanotechnology-landscape-report.html
Ocsoy I, Paret ML, Ocsoy MA, Kunwar S, Chen T, You M, Tan W (2013) Nanotechnology in plant
disease management: DNA-directed silver nanoparticles on graphene oxide as an antibacterial
against Xanthomonas perforans. ACS Nano 7:8972–8980
Opara LU (2002) Agricultural Engineering education and research in knowledge-based economy.
In: Kosutic S (ed) Proceedings of the 30th international symposium on agricultural engineering,
Zagreb, Croatia, pp 33–46
Otto M, Floyd M, Bajpai S (2008) Nanotechnology for site remediation. Remediat J [Online]
19(1):99–108
Ozimek L, Pospiech E, Narine S (2010) Nanotechnologies in food and meat processing. Acta Sci
Pol Technol Aliment 9(4):401–412
346
P. Pramanik et al.