Engineered Nanomaterials for Sustainable Agricultural Production, Soil Improvement and Stress Management

Engineered Nanomaterials for Sustainable Agricultural Production, Soil Improvement and Stress Management

1st Edition - June 24, 2022

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  • Editor: Azamal Husen
  • Paperback ISBN: 9780323919333

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Engineered Nanomaterials for Sustainable Agricultural Production, Soil Improvement and Stress Management highlights the latest advances in applying this important technology within agriculture sectors for sustainable growth, production and protection. It has been proposed that climate change-driven effects, especially from unpredictable environmental fluctuations, can result in an increased prevalence of abiotic and biotic stresses in crop plants. These stresses have been proven to negatively impact the global yields of some crop plants. To ensure and improve food security, it is, therefore, imperative to develop an improved and sustainable farming technology and also cultivars resistant to all these hazards. This book explores various smart engineered nanomaterials which are now being used as an important tool for improving growth and productivity of crops facing abiotic stresses, improving the health of the soil in which those crops are growing, and addressing stresses once the plant begins to produce food yield. The book includes insights into the use of nanoparticles as bactericides, fungicides and nanofertilizers. Engineered Nanomaterials for Sustainable Agricultural Production, Soil Improvement and Stress Management includes an international representation of authors who have crafted each chapter with clarity, reviewing up-to-date literature with lucid illustrations. The book is an important resource for researchers, nanobiotechnologist, agriculturist, horticulturists as a reference book as well as inspire some companies and specific scientists involved in nanoscience and sustainable agricultural crop plants growth, development, production and protection.

Key Features

  • Broadens the role of smart engineered (carbon, fullerene or metal based, and more) nanomaterials with up-to-date literature and practical illustrations
  • Equips readers with the information on a number of morpho-physiological, biochemical, molecular phenomenon, and smart agricultural production
  • Enriches understanding of various smart crop plants resilient to abiotic and biotic stresses in terms of nanomaterials exposure

Readership

Researchers and academics as agronomists, agriculturists, plant scientists, biotechnologists, and those who are working in the field of plant ecophysiology and environment. Researchers and master’s students in agriculture, agronomy, plant ecophysiology, toxicology, biotechnology, nanotechnology, molecular biology

Table of Contents

  • 1. Emerging role of nanoparticles in sustainable agricultural crop production and protection: An overview
    2. Emerging role of gold nanoparticles for healthier crop plants growth and enhanced yield
    3. Emerging role of silver nanoparticles for healthier crop plants growth and enhanced yield
    4. Physiological, biochemical, and molecular performance of crop plants exposed to cerium oxide nanoparticles
    5. Physiological, biochemical, and molecular performance of crop plants exposed to zinc oxide nanoparticles
    6. Physiological, biochemical, and molecular performance of crop plants exposed to copper oxide nanoparticles
    7. Physiological, biochemical, and molecular performance of crop plants exposed to titanium oxide nanoparticles
    8. Physiological, biochemical, and molecular performance of crop plants exposed to iron oxide nanoparticles
    9. Physiological, biochemical, and molecular performance of crop plants exposed to aluminium oxide nanoparticles
    10. Effect of chitosan nanoparticles on crop plants growth and physiology
    11. Assessment of carbon and fullerene nanomaterials for sustainable crop plants growth and production
    12. Role of nanocomposite for sustainable crop plants growth and production
    13. Emerging concept of nanofertilizers for sustainable crop plants growth and production
    14. Engineered nanomaterials in crop plants drought stress management
    15. Engineered nanomaterials in crop plants salinity stress management
    16. Engineered nanomaterials in crop plants temperature/heat stress management: A new-fangled approach
    17. Engineered nanomaterials in crop plants nutrients stress management
    18. Emerging concept of engineered nanomaterials in soil improvement for higher crop plants growth and production
    19. Emerging concept of smart engineered nanomaterials for plant disease diagnosis and management
    20. Nanosensors: A tool from the vault of science for crop plants growth, development, production and protection

Product details

  • No. of pages: 395
  • Language: English
  • Copyright: © Academic Press 2022
  • Published: June 24, 2022
  • Imprint: Academic Press
  • Paperback ISBN: 9780323919333

About the Editor

Azamal Husen

Dr Azamal Husen served as Professor & Head, Department of Biology, University of Gondar, Ethiopia and is a Foreign Delegate at Wolaita Sodo University, Wolaita, Ethiopia. He was also a Visiting Faculty member of the Forest Research Institute, and the Doon College of Agriculture and Forest at Dehra Dun, India. Dr Husen’s research and teaching experience of 20 years includes biogenic nanomaterial fabrication and application, plant responses to nanomaterials, plant adaptation to harsh environments at the physiological, biochemical, and molecular levels, herbal medicine, and clonal propagation for improvement of tree species. Dr Husen contributed to R&D projects of World Bank, ICAR, ICFRE, JBIC etc. To his credit are >175 publications; and he is Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Plant Physiology. He is also working as Series Editor of ‘Exploring Medicinal Plants’, published by Taylor & Francis Group, USA; ‘Plant Biology, Sustainability, and Climate Change’, published by Elsevier, USA; and ‘Smart Nanomaterials Technology’, published by Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. Singapore.

Affiliations and Expertise

Wolaita Sodo University, Wolaita, Ethiopia

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