Understanding the plant and nanoparticle interface at transcriptomic and proteomic level: A concentric overview

Abstract

Progressive research in the field of nano sciences brought prodigious advancement in all aspects of human life. Recently, the application of manufactured nanomaterials is being conceptualized in the field of agronomy and food industry. In the present scenario, nanotechnology has wide variety of applications in agricultural practices. However, nanomaterials are shown to cause toxic and deleterious effects on plants and microbes due to its persistent behavior. There are complicated mechanisms evolved in plants in regulating the uptake, accumulation and mobilization of nanoparticles, yet its impact at genetic level needs to be explored. Since, the part of genome that is functionally translated displays an important role in responding towards plant stress, the clear representation of protein and metabolic networks involved in plant cell detoxification and tolerance is provided by the proteomic studies. The transcriptomic technologies have significantly contributed in deciphering the molecular mechanisms accompanied by plants against nanoparticle stress by establishing a connection between the expression of genes and cellular metabolism. With this background, an effort has been made in the current article to provide gazed summarizations of various transcriptomic and proteomic contribution that has recently been made to establish the genetic basis of nanoparticle uptake and stress response mechanism. Furthermore, recent proteomic and transcriptomic research have also been explored in the present article in order to understand the complex regulatory network involved between plant and nanoparticle stress responses.