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. 2021 Jul 26;12:691295. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2021.691295

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Size comparison of nanomaterials to other exogenous biomolecule delivery systems. Average plant cell and the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii size are compared to chloroplast transformation carriers in the micrometer and nanometer scale. Gold microcarriers are standardly used in chloroplast transformations of both land plants and green algae through particle bombardment while the glass beads are used in a vortex-based protocol for C. reinhardtii. It becomes starkly apparent just how smaller nanoparticles are compared to standard microcarriers and potentially less disruptive for plant cells. The figure is made to scale.