Interactions of Nanomaterials with Plant Pigments

• Autor(a) principal: Pontes, Montcharles S.
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Santos, Jaqueline S., Fernandes, Simone Y., Oliveira, Ivan P., Miguel, Thaiz B. A. R., Miguel, Emilio C., Arruda, Gilberto J., Grillo, Renato [UNESP], Caires, Anderson R. L., Santiago, Etenaldo F.
• Tipo de documento: Capítulo de livro
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20878-2_5; http://hdl.handle.net/11449/247433
• topic: Engineered nanomaterials; Environmental chemistry; Homeostasis; Molecular interaction; Nanotoxicity; Pigments; Plant systems

The applications of engineered nanomaterials continue to expand into agri-food production, particularly in relation to nano-enabled agriculture formula-tions and/or colloidal particles. The widespread use of nanomaterials has generated concerns given the impact these nanostructures could be having on biomolecules, cellular homeostasis, and internal compounds. Understanding the interaction mech-anisms between engineered nanomaterials and plant pigments is essential for unbi-ased assessments of their internalization, trafficking, behavior, and fate into cellular structures through a molecular lens. This chapter describes the mechanisms that drive these interactions on the cellular uptake and trafficking of nanomaterials. Furthermore, we discuss different examples of how plant photosynthetic and non-photosynthetic pigments can helpful to understand the behavior of nanomaterials in distinct plant tissues. Finally, we demonstrate some experimental (in vitro) and theo-retical (in silico) methods aimed at monitoring and understanding existing molecular interactions of nanomaterials with plant pigments.