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Nanotechnology: A Novel Strategy Against Plant Pathogens

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To augment the nutritional values and yields for which agricultural sector come across various problem, solution to this can be provided by narrative and enhanced strategies unrehearsed by nanotechnology. To recover the safety of agricultural products as well as diminish the pollution, new Nano technological techniques with controlled delivery of pesticides, herbicides and fertilizers could be functional. Important aspects in novel agriculture include development of nanodevices such as smart delivery systems to target specific sites and also nanocarriers for chemical controlled release. Agricultural production can be revolutionized using nanotechnology involving on-farm applications to deliver drugs or pesticides to livestock or crops and smart-sensing devices for agriculture-environment interactions. This study emphasizes upon bionanotechnology awareness in agriculture which is an emergent field having enormous prospective.

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  1. National JALMA Institute for Leprosy and other Mycobacterial diseases, Agra, India

    Divakar Sharma

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

    Divakar Sharma

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

    Juhi Sharma

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

    Yogesh K. Dhuriya

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    Yogeshvari K. Jhala

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Sharma, D., Sharma, J., Dhuriya, Y.K. (2019). Nanotechnology: A Novel Strategy Against Plant Pathogens. In: Panpatte, D., Jhala, Y. (eds) Nanotechnology for Agriculture: Crop Production & Protection. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-32-9374-8_9

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