Real-Time and In Situ Monitoring of Pesticide Uptake and Transportation in Plants Using Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering Nanosensors
Ziyue Xie, Tao Cheng, Xiaoyu Guo, Ying Wen, Xinling Liu, Haifeng Yang, Yiping Wu · 2026
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Ziyue Xie and co-authors plant glowing nanosensors inside leaves to watch pesticides travel, in a 2026 study. Knowing where a spray ends up in a plant would help farmers waste less. Older tracking methods kill the plant and cannot follow movement live. The team built gold nanorods with a tiny gap holding a reference molecule. Delivered into leaf air spaces, the rods report pesticide levels through Raman light scattering, using the reference for calibration.
With sensor plants in place, the group compared watering roots against spraying leaves. Root-fed tricyclazole climbed upward in step with dose and time. Sprayed pesticide barely crossed the leaf's waxy skin barrier. Commercial forms of the same compound entered and moved better than the pure chemical. The authors offer the platform for tuning delivery methods. Real-time maps could cut the share of pesticide that never reaches its target.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Ziyue Xie, Tao Cheng, Xiaoyu Guo, Ying Wen, Xinling Liu, Haifeng Yang, Yiping Wu |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 29 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |