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Implications of Nanotechnology on Plant Productivity and Its Rhizospheric Environment

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Title Implications of Nanotechnology
on Plant Productivity and Its Rhizospheric
Environment
 
Creator Thul, S
Sarangi, B K
 
Subject Environment General, Sustainable Development
Environmental Pollution
Agriculture
 
Description Nanotechnology requires the ability to understand the materials and precisely manipulate it to nanoscale in a useful way. Nanotechnology emerged as a new broad science of diverse fields such as basic sciences, materials science, and engineering to assemble at the nanoscale. In contrast to conventional or other contaminants, nanoparticles are posing some new environmental challenges for scientists and environmentalists worldwide. Being a new area of science, nanotechnology
will leave no field untouched including agriculture and allied sectors. So far, the use of nanotechnology in agriculture has been mostly theoretical, but it has begun to have a significant effect in the main areas of agrochemical industry. Nanoparticles finding great potential as delivery systems to specific targets in living organisms and is being used in medical sciences. In plants, the same principles can be applied for a broad range of uses, particularly to tackle phytopathological
infections, nutrition supplement and as growth adjuvant. Nanoparticles can be tagged to agrochemicals or other substances as delivery agent to plant system and tissues for controlled release of chemicals. Doing so, the negative effects of nanomaterials on plant productivity and soil microbes and environment must not be overlooked, such as toxicity generated by free radicals leading to lipid peroxidation and DNA damage. Key focus of the chapter particularly relates the use of nanoparticles
on agricultural crops and its toxic implications to plants and microbes naturally present in soil and generation of nanowaste in agroecosystem.
 
Publisher Springer International Publishing
 
Contributor Siddiqui, Manzer H
Al-Whaivi, Mohamed H
Mohammad, Firoj
 
Date 2015
 
Type Book Section
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://neeri.csircentral.net/543/1/STThul_3_Chapter_OnlinePDF.pdf
Thul, S and Sarangi, B K (2015) Implications of Nanotechnology on Plant Productivity and Its Rhizospheric Environment. In: Nanotechnology and Plant Sciences: Nanoparticles and Their Impact on Plants. Springer International Publishing, Switzerland, pp. 37-53. ISBN 978-3-319-14501-3
 
Relation http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-14502-0_3
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