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01-04-2022 | Original Article / Originalbeitrag

Impact of Dual-Emissive Carbon Dots on Growth and Physiological Indexes of Cucumber Seedlings

Authors: Zuojun Tan, Mengqi She, Qing Chen, Lili Liu, Xia Cai, Yuan Huang, Fu Xiang

Published in: Journal of Crop Health | Issue 3/2022

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An increase in photosynthetic efficiency can increase the production of fruits and vegetables. Due to many limitations, plants generally use much less photosynthetic capacity because they do not absorb all incoming sunlight. Plant nano-bionics investigates Carbon quantum dots (CDs) having the high light-harvesting capability, which could be used to improve the photosynthesis efficiency of plants. To increase the yield of cucumber, this paper studied the effects of different concentrations of CDs on the growth of cucumber seedlings. We synthesized and tested nontoxic dual-emissive CDs for the photosynthetic efficiency increase in cucumber seedlings. We found that the concentration of CDs (1500 mg/l) achieves the best growth promotion of cucumber seedlings. The contents of flavonoids, soluble sugars, carotenoids, and total chlorophyll in the treated cucumber seedlings increased by 19.90%, 26.78%, 117.77%, 81.65%, respectively. Meanwhile, we found that the leaf area, net photosynthetic rate, photosynthetic pigments, and photosynthetic parameters of cucumber seedlings were improved to a certain extent after treatment with an appropriate concentration of CDs. In summary, carbon quantum dots have strong application prospects in cucumber production.

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Title: Impact of Dual-Emissive Carbon Dots on Growth and Physiological Indexes of Cucumber Seedlings
Authors: Zuojun Tan
Mengqi She
Qing Chen
Lili Liu
Xia Cai
Yuan Huang
Fu Xiang
Publication date: 01-04-2022
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in: Journal of Crop Health / Issue 3/2022
Print ISSN: 2948-264X
Electronic ISSN: 2948-2658
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10343-022-00645-y

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