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Emerging Trends of Nanoparticles in Sustainable Agriculture: Current and Future Perspectives

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Plant and Nanoparticles

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Nanotechnology in agriculture is emerging at an escalating rate, owing to its excellent properties in plant growth and development. In the present era where climate change is most commonly observed, the global patterns of agriculture are observing unprecedented challenges. For achieving food quality and yields, nano-engineering is a novel tool that maintains sustainable crop production. Due to the disastrous effects of chemical fertilizers, there is a need to switch to safer alternatives. Nano-technology enables safe crop production by improving efficiency and reducing losses. This technology has been predominantly entered into wider areas of fertilizers and pesticides for synthesizing agrochemicals based-nanoparticles. Because of their critical and direct/indirect approach in management and regulatory inputs (herbicides, pesticides, fungicides, etc.), nanotools like nano-biosensors also support avant-garde agriculture farms. Therefore, plant biology and nanotechnology together have a great impact on the environment due to their innovative characteristics in agriculture, to meet the urgent needs of food with environmental sustainability. In this chapter, we have mainly focused on nanoparticle interactions among plants, their uptake, mobilization, and metabolic actions. Moreover, the bioactive compounds in plants possess many functions that are also modulated by nanoparticles. Therefore, nanoparticles function as elicitors in the plant’s secondary metabolism. We have envisaged the multidisciplinary actions of nanoparticles with plant nanotechnology, biotechnology, genetic engineering and pushed it towards agriculture sector, as well as plant research. In particular, we have depicted the role of nanoparticles in enhancing bioactive compounds of plants, thereby improving crop productivity through boosting the nutraceutical and nutrients of plants. Here, we have also reviewed the nanoparticle abilities toward plant protection and stress management against numerous adverse conditions. This chapter will enable the researchers to understand the nanotechnology blend in agriculture, thereby designing the specific nanoparticles according to the agriculture needs as well as standards for promoting sustainable agriculture.

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Khanna, K., Sharma, N., Ohri, P., Bhardwaj, R. (2022). Emerging Trends of Nanoparticles in Sustainable Agriculture: Current and Future Perspectives. In: Chen, JT. (eds) Plant and Nanoparticles. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-2503-0_1

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