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In this era of global warming, agrarian strategies across the world are plagued with a slew of issues. Improved nano-engineering is a useful technique for increasing agricultural output and ensuring long-term sustainability in the pursuit of rural livelihoods. Nanotechnology aids in the improvement of agricultural output by boosting input efficiency and reducing relevant losses. Fertilisers and insecticides have a smaller specific surface area than nanomaterials. Nanoparticles also enable regulated, forum nutrition delivery with increased crop protection as distinctive drivers of industrial chemicals. Whilst nanotechnology’s rapid advancement in biomedical sciences has transformed therapeutic and diagnostic techniques in recent years, understanding nanoparticle–plant interactions, such as absorption, mobility, and accumulation, is still in its infancy. Because of their direct and intentional use in the specific administration and management of efforts, nanotools, such as nanobiosensors, enable the growth of high-tech farming (fertilisers, pesticides, herbicides). Nonosensors that combine biology and nanotechnology have substantially enhanced their ability to perceive and recognise environmental circumstances or impairments, with the ultimate goal of improving plant defence and/or enhancing photosynthetic activity, as well as farming methods. Humans also feel that multidisciplinary collaboration approaches will be crucial in narrowing the research gaps in plant nanotechnology and increasing the practice of NMs in farming and plant science research a broad sense.
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Sahoo, G., Roul, P.K., Mishra, P., Nakella, A.K. (2022). Applications of Nanotechnology in Preservation and Development of the Plants: A Look Back. In: Shah, M.P., Roy, A. (eds) Phytonanotechnology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-4811-4_6
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