Publications by authors named "Raja Muthuramalingam Thangavelu"
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- - This review explores the benefits and characteristics of nano-sized metal oxide fertilizers (NMOFs), highlighting their role in sustainable agriculture by addressing micronutrient deficiencies, enhancing crop resilience, and improving nutrient efficiency.
- - NMOFs, which include nanoparticles of metals like zinc and iron, offer advantages over traditional fertilizers, such as better plant uptake and reduced environmental impact, but potential risks like toxicity and environmental persistence are also discussed.
- - The review stresses the urgency for more research to understand the long-term effects of NMOFs on plant and soil health, emphasizing interdisciplinary efforts to improve agricultural practices and tackle global food security issues.
This research presents a groundbreaking approach in virus-related research, addressing challenges in electron microscopy (EM). This imaging technique has been crucial in exploring virus structures; however, traditional methods involve complex sample preparations and the risk of contamination. Herein, we introduce an approach that overcomes these obstacles, enabling high-resolution virus imaging without toxic staining procedures.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSugarcane is one of the important food and bioenergy crops, cultivated all over the world except European continent. Like many other crops, sugarcane production and quality are hampered by various plant pathogens, among them viruses that infect systemically and cause severe impact to cane growth. The viruses are efficiently managed by their elimination through tissue culture combined with molecular diagnostics, which could detect virus titre often low at 10 g mL.
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- A research study explores the use of a plant pathogenic virus (SLCCNV) as a scaffold for creating nanotechnology applications by generating a cargo-like structure.
- The study utilizes a yeast expression system to efficiently obtain coat protein monomers from SLCCNV, which are then assembled into a nanocargo architecture capable of encapsulating magnetic nanoparticles by modifying the pH of the environment.
- Additionally, bioinformatics tools were applied to study self-assembly kinetics and bioconjugation sites, and findings indicate that the SLCCNV-nanocargo exhibits low toxicity, suggesting its potential for biomedical applications.