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Nanoelements: An Agricultural Paradigm for Targeted Plant Nutrition Therapeutic Approach

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The nutrients required for good health, longevity, and well-being come from the different complex food system. The constant growth of the world population increased the demand for better technologies to enhance the agricultural yields, production of healthier food, and combat with pathogens to reduce the damage. In medical fields, nanotechnology shows promising therapeutic effects as it overcomes the biological barriers and improves the targeting of the diseased tissues, while application of nanotechnology in agricultural fields has received little attention in contrast to the human health system. Phyto-nanotechnology has tremendous potential to alter the plant production by allowing the target-specific delivery of nutrients and biomolecules, and it also allows the controlled release of fertilizers, herbicides, and pesticides to reduce environmental damage. A better understanding of the relationship between plants response and nanoparticles may improve the uptake of agricultural elements which is essential to increase the agricultural yields and disease resistance of plants while reducing the biotic stress. Maintaining the optimum requirement of nutrition to sustain plant production is the major research area of agronomy field, and nano-nutrition is a remarkable area for sustainable plant production by using nano-elements. Using this technology, we can maintain the need for micro and macronutrients in the plants. Confront studies have reported that nanomaterial and nanoparticles are better suited for plant nutrition in contrast to nano-fertilizers.

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  1. Interdisciplinary Biotechnology Unit, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India

    Divakar Sharma

  2. CSIR-Indian Institute of Toxicology Research (CSIR-IITR), Lucknow, India

    Yogesh K. Dhuriya

  3. St. Aloysius College, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, India

    Juhi Sharma

  4. Amity University Gwalior, Gwalior, India

    Monika Gupta

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Sharma, D., Dhuriya, Y.K., Sharma, J., Gupta, M. (2019). Nanoelements: An Agricultural Paradigm for Targeted Plant Nutrition Therapeutic Approach. In: Panpatte, D., Jhala, Y. (eds) Nanotechnology for Agriculture: Crop Production & Protection. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-32-9374-8_4

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