{"id":206420,"date":"2025-02-14T04:16:33","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T10:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/nanoparticles-successfully-deliver-genetic-material-to-plants-via-roots"},"modified":"2025-02-14T04:16:33","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T10:16:33","slug":"nanoparticles-successfully-deliver-genetic-material-to-plants-via-roots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/nanoparticles-successfully-deliver-genetic-material-to-plants-via-roots","title":{"rendered":"Nanoparticles successfully deliver genetic material to plants via roots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nanoparticles-successfully-deliver-genetic-material-to-plants-via-roots.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>University of Queensland researchers have for the first time introduced genetic material into plants via their roots, opening a potential pathway for rapid crop improvement. The research is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41477-024-01882-x\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in Nature Plants.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Bernard Carroll from UQ\u2019s School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences said nanoparticle technology could help fine-tune plant genes to increase crop yield and improve food quality.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTraditional plant breeding and <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/genetic+modification\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">genetic modification<\/a> take many generations to produce a new crop variety, which is time-consuming and expensive,\u201d Professor Carroll said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University of Queensland researchers have for the first time introduced genetic material into plants via their roots, opening a potential pathway for rapid crop improvement. The research is published in Nature Plants. Professor Bernard Carroll from UQ\u2019s School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences said nanoparticle technology could help fine-tune plant genes to increase crop yield [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,1506,412,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-food","category-genetics","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}