Multi-omics analysis reveals the crucial role of ligustrum lucidum carbon dots in promoting vegetable sweetpotato growth and enhancing soil health
Yiren Su, Zhiyuan Pan, Lukan Zhao, Jiaying Wu, Wenhui Yu, Xibin Dai, Zhilin Zhou, Qinghe Cao · 2026
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Su and colleagues made glowing carbon dots from the leaves of Ligustrum lucidum, a glossy privet tree, and sprayed them on vegetable sweetpotato plants in 2026. Carbon dots are specks of carbon a few billionths of a meter wide that can carry light energy into leaves. The team tracked growth over 7 and 14 days and profiled gene activity, plant chemicals, and soil microbes to explain any changes.
Sprayed plants grew far faster, and after 14 days their shoot dry weight rose by about 81 percent against untreated plants in the trial. Leaf chlorophyll, the green pigment that captures light, climbed by about 80 percent, and the rate of photosynthesis rose by about 73 percent at day seven. Soil nutrient availability and root-zone microbe patterns also improved, so the authors propose the dots as a candidate green booster for crops.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Yiren Su, Zhiyuan Pan, Lukan Zhao, Jiaying Wu, Wenhui Yu, Xibin Dai, Zhilin Zhou, Qinghe Cao |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 58 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |