Nanotechnology for Sustainable Agriculture - An Innovative and Eco-Friendly Approach

This new volume explores the important and cutting-edge roles that nanotechnology can play in facilitating sustainable agriculture. It provides recent updates on nanobiotechnology in soil science, plant breeding, food science, agricultural tool design and utilization, as well as the impacts of such approaches on properties of soils and plants and other environmental factors. The volume looks at the many roles of nanotechnology as a state-of-the art tool in sustainable agriculture, such as for crop production and protection, in the creation and application of nano-pesticides, to enhance soil fertility and soil health for improved plant growth, as plant protective agents against pathogenic microbes and pests, as a mitigating factor of plant abiotic stress, and more. It also discusses the behavior of nanomaterials in soil and interaction with soil biota. The volume goes on to explore emerging nanotechnological tools and techniques for crop improvement, which include space-inspired speed breeding for crop improvement, nanoparticles as sensing materials, plant nanobionics, nanopore DNA sequencing, and more. Nanotechnology for Sustainable Agriculture: An Innovative and Eco-Friendly Approach will be an important resource on sustainable agriculture and crop improvement with the help of the recent and emerging tools of nanotechnology.