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Recent Trends, Prospects, and Challenges of Nanobiosensors in Agriculture

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Biosensors in Agriculture: Recent Trends and Future Perspectives

Part of the book series: Concepts and Strategies in Plant Sciences ((CSPS))

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Nanotechnology (NT) is an interdisciplinary scientific approach at the nanoscale which revolutionized nanobiosensors’ usage in agriculture. Agriculture is a diversified field that plays a self-sustaining role to promote the economic development of any country toward mankind. Agriculture requires nanotechnical interventions toward food processing, food safety, food quality or quality assurance, food security, disaster risk management, diagnosis, and prevention at the local and global levels. Nanobiosensors have immense potential to solve severe problems pertaining to agriculture. Nanobiotechnology (NBT) is a branch of NT at nano dimensions to create tools and techniques, and functional structures which open new applications toward agriculture and health. Agriculture is the major sector of national economy in developing countries. A recent advance in biosensor technology toward agriculture challenges is very challenging with the intervention of nanotechnology which would emerge to enhance crop productivity and sustainability and also improve real-time quality and food safety of livestock, and natural agricultural resources. In this book chapter, the commercial and futuristic nanobiosensors are highlighted to defend the challenges in the major sector of agriculture and bring out the implications of nanobiosensors design and development toward the improvement of crop productivity. Thus, nanobiosensors are playing a crucial role in sensing insecticides, herbicides, fertilizers, and pathogens.

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Dr. Ravindra Pratap Singh thanks IGNTU, Amarkantak, M.P. India for providing facilities to prepare this book chapter.

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  1. Department of Biotechnology, Indira Gandhi National Tribal University (Central University), Amarkantak, Anuppur (M.P.), Pin-484887, India

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  1. Amity Institute of Nanotechnology, Amity University, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

    Ramesh Namdeo Pudake

  2. Amity Institute of Nanotechnology, Amity University, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

    Utkarsh Jain

  3. Department of Atomic Energy, ICAR - National Institute for Plant Biotechnology, New Delhi, Delhi, India

    Chittaranjan Kole

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Singh, R.P. (2021). Recent Trends, Prospects, and Challenges of Nanobiosensors in Agriculture. In: Pudake, R.N., Jain, U., Kole, C. (eds) Biosensors in Agriculture: Recent Trends and Future Perspectives. Concepts and Strategies in Plant Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66165-6_1

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