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Nanotechnology Meets Plant Sciences: Gold Functionalized Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticle Mediated Protein and DNA Codelivery to Plant Cells Via the Biolistic Method (Adv. Funct. Mater. 17/2012)
Author(s) -
MartinOrtigosa Susana,
Valenstein Justin S.,
Lin Victor S.Y.,
Trewyn Brian G.,
Wang Kan
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
advanced functional materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 6.069
H-Index - 322
eISSN - 1616-3028
pISSN - 1616-301X
DOI - 10.1002/adfm.201290102
Subject(s) - nanotechnology , materials science , colloidal gold , nanoparticle , mesoporous silica , mesoporous material , chemistry , organic chemistry , catalysis
The cell wall of plant cells is a physical barrier for nanoparticle uptake that limits nanotechnology development in plant sciences. On page 3576 , Brian G. Trewyn, Kan Wang, and co‐workers report using gold‐plated mesoporous silica nanoparticles, which have increased performance as projectiles through the biolistic method, to co‐deliver proteins and plasmid DNA into walled plant cells.