Fig. 7.
Effect of silica and silica nanoparticles priming at 30 and 100 ppm concentrations on (a) total soluble sugars (TSS) and (b) starch of 6-day-old rice seedlings. Data are presented as means ± SE. Significant differences in the mean value of each treatment are represented by different lowercase letter (s) based on Fisher’s test (p ≤ 0.05, n = 3). HP: hydro priming, Bulk-Si: silica, Bio-SiNPs: biologically synthesized silica nanoparticles, Chem-SiNPs: chemically synthesized silica nanoparticles.
