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Titanium dioxide nanoparticles alleviate
tetracycline toxicity to Arabidopsis thaliana (L.)
Hong Liu, Chuanxin Ma, Guangcai Chen, Jason C. White, Baoshan Xing, and Om Parkash Dhankher
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5 35 Arabidopsis thaliana (L.) Heynh. was used as a model plant to investigate the
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58 Keywords: Arabidopsis thaliana, titanium oxide nanoparticles, tetracycline, co-
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131 genes involved in sulfur assimilation, glutathione biosynthesis, as well as stress-related
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13 689 TC. Figure 2A-D represents SOD, CAT, APX, and POD activities, respectively. Data are
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