Abstract
Due to the overall growing population worldwide with accelerated food demand, agriculture resources demand further development. The high cost of conventionally used fertilizers mainly because of use in high quantity results as a problem at gross root level to all farmers. Nanotechnology can be the alternative solution to that issue with the potential use of nanofertilizers (NF) as a replacement to conventional fertilizers in the near future. Nanostructures (NS) possess tremendous physicochemical properties like smaller size, high surface area to volume ratio, increased reactivity, greater power of ionization, improved chemical stability, enlarged absorbability, greater pH tolerance, and expanded thermal stability. Because of these enhanced properties, NS as NF got great potential to improve the overall growth parameters in plant. However, for the global commercialization of NS as NF, there are so many vital areas (like NS adsorption from aerial or soil root, chemical stability, environmental toxicity, NS behavior in xylem or phloem, NS interaction with cellular protein, RNA and DNA, etc.) that need to be researched. This book chapter mainly focuses on the applications of NS as NF, future prospective of NF, and proposed areas needed for exploration.
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Sidorowicz, A., Maqbool, Q., Nazar, M. (2019). Future of Nanofertilizer. In: Panpatte, D., Jhala, Y. (eds) Nanotechnology for Agriculture: Crop Production & Protection. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-32-9374-8_8
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