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ArticleScientific reports2022

Incorporation of engineered nanoparticles of biochar and fly ash against bacterial leaf spot of pepper.

Zill-E-Huma Aftab, Waqar Aslam, Arusa Aftab, Adnan Noor Shah, Adnan Akhter, Usama Fakhar, Iffat Siddiqui, Waseem Ahmed, Farzana Majid, Jacek Wróbel and 6 more

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Article in Scientific reports, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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16 authors.

Zill-E-Huma AftabDepartment of Plant Pathology, University of the Punjab, Lahore, 54590, Pakistan. huma.dpp@pu.edu.pk.
Waqar AslamDepartment of Plant Pathology, University of the Punjab, Lahore, 54590, Pakistan.
Arusa AftabDepartment of Botany, Lahore College for Women University, Lahore, Pakistan.
Adnan Noor ShahDepartment of Agricultural Engineering, Khwaja Fareed University of Engineering and Information Technology, Rahim Yar Khan, Punjab, 64200, Pakistan.
Adnan AkhterDepartment of Plant Pathology, University of the Punjab, Lahore, 54590, Pakistan.
Usama FakharPunjab University College of Pharmacy, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan.
Iffat SiddiquiEastern Cereal and Oil Seed Research Centre, Ottawa, Canada.
Waseem AhmedDepartment of Horticulture, The University of Haripur, Hatter Road, 22620, Pakistan.
Farzana MajidDepartment of Physics, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan.
Jacek WróbelDepartment of Bioengineering, West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin, 17 Słowackiego Street, 71-434, Szczecin, Poland.
Muhammad Danish AliDepartment of Physics, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan. danish.ali@lhr.nu.edu.pk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4717-592X
Muzammil AftabDepartment of Physics, Government College University Lahore, Lahore, Pakistan. m.muzamilaftab@gmail.com.
Mohamed A A AhmedPlant Production Department (Horticulture-Medicinal and Aromatic Plants), Faculty of Agriculture (Saba Basha), Alexandria University, Alexandria, 21531, Egypt.
Hazem M KalajiDepartment of Plant Physiology, Institute of Biology, Warsaw, University of Life Sciences SGGW, Now-oursynowska 159, 02-776, Warsaw, Poland.
Asad AbbasSchool of Horticulture, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, 230036, China.
Umar KhalidDepartment of Plant Pathology, University of the Punjab, Lahore, 54590, Pakistan.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In agriculture, the search for higher net profit is the main challenge in the economy of the producers and nano biochar attracts increasing interest in recent years due to its unique environmental behavior and increasing the productivity of plants by inducing resistance against phytopathogens. The effect of rice straw biochar and fly ash nanoparticles (RSBNPs and FNPs, respectively) in combination with compost soil on bacterial leaf spot of pepper caused by Xanthomonas campestris pv. vesicatoria was investigated both in vitro and in vivo. The application of nanoparticles as soil amendment significantly improved the chili pepper plant growth. However, RSBNPs were more effective in enhancing the above and belowground plant biomass production. Moreover, both RSBNPs and FNPs, significantly reduced (30.5 and 22.5%, respectively), while RSBNPs had shown in vitro growth inhibition of X. campestris pv. vesicatoria by more than 50%. The X-ray diffractometry of RSBNPs and FNPs highlighted the unique composition of nano forms which possibly contributed in enhancing the plant defence against invading X. campestris pv. vesicatoria. Based on our findings, it is suggested that biochar and fly ash nanoparticles can be used for reclaiming the problem soil and enhance crop productivity depending upon the nature of the soil and the pathosystem under investigation.

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NanoparticlesXanthomonas campestrisCharcoalCoal AshSoilXanthomonas vesicatoriabiocharCharcoalCoal AshSoil

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PMCPMC9123008

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