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Impacts of Metal and Metal Oxide Nanoparticles on Plant Growth and Productivity

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Synthetic nanoparticles (NPs) have more characteristic properties like high surface area, tunable pore size, and high reactivity, as compared to natural NPs. Therefore, this technology has opened a new epoch of application-based research in plant physiology. With an increase in the use of metal and metal oxide nanoparticles (MNPs/MONPs), they will gradually enter the environment. Regulation of their optimum levels within the soil as nutrients/facilitator/pollutant for sustainable agriculture and crop production is a very challenging and tedious task. Plant development is regulated by diverse environmental factors like nutrient availability, temperature, soil morphology, and light intensity. Therefore, plant-MNP relations concerning the uptake and toxicity of MNPs/MONPs under natural environment have attracted the attention of many researchers. The unrestrained application of MNPs poses a challenge concerning their fate and transport in the natural environment and their hazardous effect on the biotic community. Knowledge about the phytotoxicity of many MNPs/MONPs on plant performance is still meager, and hence it is too early to predict their impacts on plants and on the respective ecosystem.

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Kanwar, M.K., Sun, S., Chu, X., Zhou, J. (2019). Impacts of Metal and Metal Oxide Nanoparticles on Plant Growth and Productivity. In: Husen, A., Iqbal, M. (eds) Nanomaterials and Plant Potential. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05569-1_15

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