Biotechnology Bulletin ›› 2025, Vol. 41 ›› Issue (1): 14-24.doi: 10.13560/j.cnki.biotech.bull.1985.2024-0470

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Research Progress of Nano-regulation of Vegetable Seed Germination and Its Mechanism

WU Zhi-jian1,2(), LIU Guang-yang2,3, LIN Zhi-hao2, SHENG Bin2,4, CHEN Ge2, XU Xiao-min2, WANG Jun-wei1(), XU Dong-hui2,3()   

  1. 1. College of Horticulture, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha 410000
    2. Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081
    3. National Center of Technology Innovation for Comprehensive Utilization of Saline-Alkali Land, Dongying 257347
    4. College of Horticulture, Shenyang Agricultural University, Shenyang 110000
  • Received:2024-05-20 Online:2025-01-26 Published:2025-01-22
  • Contact: WANG Jun-wei, XU Dong-hui E-mail:3463625130@qq.com;JunweiWang87@126.com;xudonghui@caas.cn

Abstract:

Improving seed germination under abiotic stress may reduce the risk to vegetable safety posed by environmental degradation and provide guarantees for global vegetable yield. Because of their small size and unique physicochemical properties, nanomaterials can be applied in vegetables production on seed priming. Nano priming has shown a surprising role in improving vegetable seed germination under abiotic stress. This paper classifies nanomaterials used to regulate vegetable seed germination into four categories, namely carbon-based, silicon-based, metal particles and metal oxides, and lists some of the suitable concentrations of nanomaterials for promoting vegetable seed germination. Besides, the paper describes the commonly used synthesis methods for different kinds of nanomaterials and their influencing factors, and compares the advantages and disadvantages of conventional synthesis with green synthesis. This review mainly highlights the effects of nano-priming on the physiological and biochemical indexes of vegetable seeds and seedlings and summarizes into two regulatory pathways. The pathway promotes germination by using nanomaterials to modulate germination-related processes such as water and nutrition uptake and gibberellin synthesis in seeds, which is known as direct regulation. Indirect regulation refers to promote germination involving the generation of reactive oxygen species by nanomaterials, activation of antioxidant systems through signaling, and enhancing the resistance of seeds to abiotic stress. Finally, the paper describes the applications of nanomaterials in seeds and envisions the future research directions of nano-priming: 1)Focusing on the potential risks of nanomaterials to the environment under long-term conditions to avoid adverse effects on human health through the food chain; 2)evaluating the performance of nanomaterials in regulating reactive oxygen species and guaranteeing seed germination under a variety of abiotic stresses; 3)exploring the overall pathway of activating of defense pathways through signaling by reactive oxygen species generated by nanomaterial priming; 4)adding the exact mechanism by which nanomaterials enter the seed.

Key words: nanomaterials, vegetable seeds germination, nano-priming, reactive oxygen species, antioxidant, abiotic stress