Recent trends in nano-fertilizers for sustainable agriculture under climate change for global food security

KK Verma, XP Song, A Joshi, DD Tian, VD Rajput… - Nanomaterials, 2022 - mdpi.com
Nano-fertilizers (NFs) significantly improve soil quality and plant growth performance and
enhance crop production with quality fruits/grains. The management of macro-micronutrients …

Recent advances in nano-enabled fertilizers and pesticides: a critical review of mechanisms of action

IO Adisa, VLR Pullagurala, JR Peralta-Videa… - Environmental …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
The use of nanomaterials in agriculture as nanofertilizers, nanopesticides, or nano-enabled
sensors to increase crop yield is gaining increasing interest. Engineered nanomaterials …

Foliar application of nanoparticles: mechanisms of absorption, transfer, and multiple impacts

J Hong, C Wang, DC Wagner… - Environmental …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Foliar spray of engineered nanoparticles (NPs) as nanofertilizers, nanopesticides,
nanosensors, and nanocarriers is increasingly being employed in the agricultural industry …

Nanoparticles in agroindustry: Applications, toxicity, challenges, and trends

LA Paramo, AA Feregrino-Pérez, R Guevara… - Nanomaterials, 2020 - mdpi.com
Nanotechnology is a tool that in the last decade has demonstrated multiple applications in
several sectors, including agroindustry. There has been an advance in the development of …

Chitosan as a bioactive polymer: Processing, properties and applications

A Muxika, A Etxabide, J Uranga, P Guerrero… - International journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Chitin is one of the most abundant natural polysaccharides in the world and it is mainly used
for the production of chitosan by a deacetylation process. Chitosan is a bioactive polymer …

Engineering plants with carbon nanotubes: a sustainable agriculture approach

M Safdar, W Kim, S Park, Y Gwon, YO Kim… - Journal of …, 2022 - Springer
Sustainable agriculture is an important conception to meet the growing food demand of the
global population. The increased need for adequate and safe food, as well as the ongoing …

Current trends and challenges in the synthesis and applications of chitosan-based nanocomposites for plants: A review

J Yu, D Wang, N Geetha, KM Khawar, S Jogaiah… - Carbohydrate …, 2021 - Elsevier
Chitosan, a low-cost and multipurpose polymer with numerous desired physicochemical and
biological properties has been tested for various applications in agriculture, pharmacy, and …

Phytonanotechnology applications in modern agriculture

M Jiang, Y Song, MK Kanwar, GJ Ahammed… - Journal of …, 2021 - Springer
With the rapidly changing global climate, the agricultural systems are confronted with more
unpredictable and harsh environmental conditions than before which lead to compromised …

Switching to nanonutrients for sustaining agroecosystems and environment: The challenges and benefits in moving up from ionic to particle feeding

AK Bhardwaj, G Arya, R Kumar, L Hamed… - Journal of …, 2022 - Springer
The worldwide agricultural enterprise is facing immense pressure to intensify to feed the
world's increasing population while the resources are dwindling. Fertilizers which are …

Zinc, zinc nanoparticles and plants

H Sturikova, O Krystofova, D Huska, V Adam - Journal of hazardous …, 2018 - Elsevier
Zinc belongs to the mineral elements, the so-called micronutrients, which are essential for all
types of plants. Embedding itself into the enzymes associated with proteosynthesis and …