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Silica breaks through in plants

Nature Nanotechnology volume 2, pages 272–273 (2007)Cite this article

Designer nanotubes based on mesoporous silica can now penetrate the thick cell walls of plants and deliver DNA and their activators. This opens the way to precisely manipulate gene expression in plants at the single-cell level.

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Figure 1: Delivering DNA and their effector molecules into intact plant cells using mesoporous silica nanoparticles.

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Galbraith, D. Silica breaks through in plants. Nature Nanotech 2, 272–273 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2007.118

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