Nanoparticles: The Next Generation Technology for Sustainable Agriculture

Abstract

Agri-nanotechnology has the potential to transform the agricultural practices. Nanoparticles of interest can be produced both by various physical and chemical methods. The biogenetic production of nanoparticles is now of high interest due to simplicity of the procedures and their versatility. Several species of bacteria and plants are able to synthesize nanoparticles or help in the process of their production. Implementation of nanoparticlebased smart delivery system and nanosensors holds the promise of controlled release of agrochemicals and site-targeted delivery of various macromolecules needed for improved plant disease resistance, effi cient nutrient utilization and improved plant defence in an environment-friendly manner. Nanoparticle-mediated plant transformation has the potential for genetic modifi cation of plant improvement.

Nanomaterials and plant abiotic stress in agroecosystems

“…These nanomaterials may help in reducing the consumption of different agro-chemicals (fertilizers, pesticides, etc.) leading to minimizing the environmental pollution and hence the sustainable agriculture (Dwivedi et al 2016;Khan et al 2016;Panpatte et al 2016;Pulimi and Subramanian 2016).…”

“…Due to the several unique physicochemical properties of nanoparticles or nanomateriales, nanotechnology has already penetrated many fields for great novel applications in the agriculture sector. These physicochemical properties include a very high reactivity, high surface area, tunable pore size and particle morphology (Belal and El-Ramady 2016; Mani and Mondal 2016;Panpatte et al 2016;Servin and White 2016;Shalaby et al 2016). Concerning the agricultural sectors, the applications of nanotechnology have been used in several fields including the fertilization sector (Mastronardi et al2015;Chhipa 2016;Chhipa and Joshi 2016;Dubey and Mailapalli 2016;Mani et al 2016;Monreal et al 2016;Panpatte et al 2016), plant protection (Bhattacharyya et al 2016Nuruzzaman et al 2016;Saharan and Pal 2016;, food sector (Ghanbarzadeh et al 2016;Eleftheriadou et al 2017;Grumezescu 2017;, precision farming (Gouma et al 2016;Chhipa and Joshi 2016;Neethirajan 2017), remediation of terrestrial environments (Belal and El-Ramady 2016;Gil-Díaz et al 2016a, b;Gomes et al 2016;Patra et al 2016;Gil-Díaz et al 2017), etc.…”

Nanoparticles: a Novel Approach for Sustainable Agro-productivity

“…Therefore, it could be sustained the agricultural production using different nanomaterials and nanoparticles. This point of view has been explained in details in many studies such as Ditta et al (2015), Belal and El-Ramady (2016), Chhipa and Joshi (2016), Chhipa (2016), Dubey and Mailapalli (2016), Dwivedi et al (2016), Panpatte et al (2016), Shalaby et al (2016, etc. Hence, the sustainable agricultural production using different nanomaterials can be performed in different natural resources including plants Kole et al 2016;Dubey et al 2016), water (Dasgupta et al 2016), soil (Belal andEl-Ramady 2016;Shalaby et al 2016), energy (Rai and da Silva 2017), etc.…”

“…Nearly all agricultural practices and production may be touched or penetrated by the nanotechnological sciences. So, several agroproducts could not be only fabricated using nanomaterials but also a huge amount of agrowastes can be managed using these nanomaterials (Dwivedi et al 2016;Panpatte et al 2016;Peters et al 2016;Adebisi et al 2017;Patil et al 2017). Hence, great challenges have been created seeking for the sustainability of agro-production including soil security, water, security, energy security, food security, reduction of poverty and improvement of human public health (Ditta et al 2015;Gupta and Verma 2015;Bello et al 2016;De La Cueva Bueno et al 2017;Nuhoff-Isakhanyan et al 2017).…”

“…Nanoparticles application to the agroproduction sector is multidisciplinary in nature. Therefore, the use of nanoparticles in agriculture has been touched several topics including nanoagrochemicals, nanofertilizers, nanopesticides and nanosensors as mentioned before (Dwivedi et al 2016;Panpatte et al 2016;Servin and White 2016). Also, it must improve the global food production, enhancing its quality and reducing the agro-wastes (Fig.…”