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Utilization of Nanofertilizers in Crop Tolerance to Abiotic Stress

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Abiotic stresses severely affect plant growth, development, production and quality. These stresses are the main reason for decreased productivity worldwide accompanied by an increasing human population. This necessitates developing novel solutions to achieve sustainability and overcome these problems. Recently, a new era has begun to emerge, the era of nanotechnology. It improved the ability crops to deal with abiotic stress and primary or secondary metabolic function. The present chapter provides insight on the relationship between abiotic stresses and nanotechnology together with nanofertilizers, their characteristics/roles as well as their comparison with conventional fertilizers. Moreover, this chapter not only highlights the interaction between NPs and plants on several growth stages, but also the importance of nanotechnology in the purification of irrigation water, the effect of different nanoparticles on crops cultivated under abiotic stress with their possible toxicity impact on plants.

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