The Impact of Nanoparticles on Agriculture and Soil, part of the Nanomaterials-Plant Interaction series, contributes the most recent insights into understanding the cellular interactions of nanoparticles in an agricultural setting, focusing on current applications and means of evaluating future prospects. In order to ensure and improve the biosafety of nanoparticles, it is a primary concern to understand cellular bioprocess like nanomaterial's cellular uptake and their influence on cellular structural, functional and genetic components. This book addresses these and other important aspects in detail along with showcasing their applications in the area of agriculture.
With an international team of authors, and experienced editors, this book will be valuable to those working to understand and advance nanoscience to benefit agricultural production and human and environmental welfare. In-depth knowledge of these bioprocess will enable researchers to engineer nanomaterials for enhanced biosafety.
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Table of Contents
1. The Impact of Nanoparticles in Agriculture and Soil: An Introduction2. Nanoparticles in agriculture
3. Mode of exposure and Transport of Nanoparticles in the plant system
4. Interaction of nanomaterial's with the plant cells
5. Potential role of nanomaterial's on the plant cell growth, development and differentiation
6. Decoding the Nano-bio effects on the cellular expressions in plants
7. Effect on nanoparticles on plant cell metabolism
8. Genotoxicity of the nanoparticles
9. Impact and Current Perspectives of NPs on soil Nutrients status
10. Influence of nanoparticles/nano tubes on the soil microflora
11. Influence of nanoparticles/nano tubes on the plant rhizosphere microbiome
12. Effects of nanoparticles/nanotubes on the plant growth
13. Effects of nanoparticles/nanotubes on the plant growth under stress conditions
14. Application of nanomaterial's in agriculture
15. Nano fertilizers: As Smart Nano-Formulations in the Agriculture Industry
16. Nanopesticides: A promising pest management solution in the Agriculture Industry
17. Nano sensors for the crop protection
18. Environmental risk assessment of Nano-pesticides and Nano-fertilizers
19. Economic Aspect of Nanomaterial based agriculture solutions
20. Future of nanomaterial's in agriculture practices
21. The Impact of Nanoparticles in Agriculture and Soil: Conclusion and Future Recommendations
Authors
Nar Singh Chauhan Department of Biochemistry, Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, India. Dr. NS Chauhan is an Associate Professor in Biochemistry at Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, India. For more than a decade, he has devoted his research to understanding microbial community structure and functions to exploit their potential for therapeutic, diagnostic, and industrial applications. He has completed eight major research projects and published numerous studies exploring microbiota composition, microbiome functions, microbiota evolution, and host-microbial interactions. Sarvajeet Singh Gill Assistant Professor of Ag. Biotechnology, Stress Physiology and Molecular Biology Lab, Centre for Biotechnology, Faculty of Life Sciences, MD University, Rohtak, India. Dr. Sarvajeet Singh Gill is an Assistant Professor at Centre for Biotechnology, Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak. His research focus includes Agricultural Plant Biotechnology; Biotic & Abiotic stress biology, plant microbe interaction and in-silico understanding of plant genomes.In addition to his research and teaching responsibilities he has served as Associate Editor for the Brazilian Journal of Botany, and as Guest Editor of Plant Genes. He was Guest Editor of BioMed Research International's Special Issue (Plant Stress & Biotechnology); Frontiers in Plant Science, Section-Environmental Toxicology (Topic Title: Phytotoxicity of high and low levels of plant-beneficial heavy metal ions); Frontiers in Plant Science, Section-Crop Science and Horticulture (Topic Title: The Brassicaceae - agri-horticultural and environmental perspectives); Frontiers in Plant Science, Section-Plant Physiology (Topic Title: Recent insights into the double role of hydrogen peroxide in plants); and Functional Genomics Approaches to Decipher Plant Resilience to Environmental Stresses (International Journal of Plant Genomics).
