Agriculture & Allied Sciences

Nanotechnology for Agriculture
A Potential Tool for Abiotic Stress Tolerance

Editors: Ashwani Kumar, PhD
Ayamn El Sabagh, PhD

Nanotechnology for Agriculture

In Production
Pub Date: Forthcoming December 2024
Hardback Price: $220 US | £170 UK
Hard ISBN: 9781774918760
Pages: Est. 328pp w/index
Binding Type: Hardback / ebook
Notes: 15 color illustrations

Nanotechnology is emerging as an exciting field of research in relation to agriculture today, mainly due to its potential for tackling the harmful effects of abiotic stresses and climate change. This new book throws light on the use of nanoparticles as nanofertifilizers and details their prospective applications in agricultural science, including their use in minimizing the consequences of climate change, enhancing nutrient utilization efficiency, and achieving abiotic stress management.

With chapters contributed by expert researchers from around the world, this book summarizes the importance of nanotechnology in abiotic stress tolerance in crop plants, presenting the latest research on the application of nanotechnology in agriculture crop production, its various applications in crop growth enhancement under different abiotic stress conditions, and the uses of various nanoparticles in agricultural fields for better yield and productivity.

The book begins with a basic introduction to the concept of nanotechnology and its role in modern agriculture and proceeds to cover some of the latest trends and highlighting the prospects of nanotechnology in promoting sustainable agriculture through nanofertilizers, nanopesticides, nanoencapsulation, nanosensors, nanobarcodes, and intelligent distribution systems. It also details important topics such as nano-priming as seed priming technology for sustainable agriculture, the role of Si and nano-silicon (SiNP) in ameliorating biotic and abiotic stresses, and more. The use of nanotechnology in specific plants is also discussed, such as, for example, in cotton, forage crops, medicinal crops, etc.

Covering nanotechnology for its diverse use in agriculture, focusing on both its possibilities and challenges, this book will be valuable for researchers and agricultural scientists as well as for faculty and students in the emerging field of nanotechnology in agricultural sciences.

CONTENTS:
Preface

Introduction by Sherif A. El Safty

1. New Opportunities for Nanotechnologies in Agriculture

Carine Nono Temegne, Annie Stephanie Nana, Emmanuel Youmbi, M.S. Islam, Muhammad Aamir Iqbal, Muhammad Zahid Ihsan, Disna Ratnasekera, Celaluddin Barutcular, Ömer Konuskan, and Ayman El Sabagh

2. Nano-Priming as Seed Priming Technology for Sustainable Agriculture
Fatih Çið, Rojin Özek, Murat Erman, Sipan Soysal, Özge Uçar, Zeki Erden, Mustafa Ceritoðlu, Çaðdaþ Can Toprak, Sönmez Özbey, Muhammad A. Raza, Javeed A. Lone, Saifullah Abro, Muhammad Arshad, and Mehmet Efe

3. Nanotechnology as a Tool for Mitigating Abiotic Stresses in Crop Plants
Talha Javed, Rubab Shabbir, Sadam Hussain, Siraj Ahmed, Muhammad Saqib, Karthika Rajendran, Doðan Arslan, Aynur Bilmez Özçinar, and Ayman El Sabagh

4. Nano-Silicon-Mediated Abiotic Stress Resistance in Plants: Mechanisms of Stress Mitigation
Dinoo Gunasekera, Disna Ratnasekera, Basharat Ali, Mohammad Sohidul Islam, Uzma Younis, Sharif Ahmed, Semih Açikbaþ, Nizamettin Turan, Seyithan Seydoþoðlu, and Ayman Elsabagh

5. Nanotechnology as a Sustainable Approach for Combating Climate Change
Sumit Sow, Shivani Ranjan, Sanjay Kumar, Mainak Ghosh, Navnit Kumar, Smruti Ranjan Padhan, Arzu Çið, Fatih Çið, and Ayman El Sabagh

6. Nanotechnology as a Way Forward for Insect Pest Management
Sheikh Aafreen Rehman, Sajad A. Ganie, Tamjeeda Nisar, Javeed A. Lone, Muhammad Jafir, Jamila Dirbas, and Ayman El Sabagh

7. Nano-Fertilizers for Sustainable Agriculture under Limited Abiotic Conditions
Anamika Dubey, Diksha Saiyam, Ashwani Kumar, Mohammed Latif Khan, and Ayman El Sabagh

8. Enhancing Photosynthetic Efficiency of Crops through Metabolic Engineering and Nanoformulations
Chukwuma C. Ogbaga, Habib-Ur-Rehman Athar, Disna Ratnasekera, Hussan Bano, Aneela Kanwal Shahzadi, Misbah Amir, Islam F. Hassan, Godswill Ntsomboh-Ntsefong, Nugun P. Jellason, Jude A. Okolie, and Ayman El Sabagh

9. The Effect of Nanoparticles on the Production and Quality of Medicinal Plants
Gülen Özyazici

10. The Effect of Nanoparticles on the Production and Quality of Forage Crops
Mehmet Arif Özyazici

11. Applications of Nanoparticles for Improving Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Cotton
Muhammad Ikram, Muhammad Faizan Khurram Maqsood, Abdul Rauf, Maryam Tahira, Maria Batool, Imran Khan, Asif Minhas, Jamila Dirbas, Muhammad Aamir Iqbal, Mohammad Sohidul Islam, Subhan Danish, Cetin Karademir, Emine Karademir, Rukiye Kiliç, and Ayman El Sabagh

12. Nanotechnology in Agriculture: Current Trends and Future Prospects under Changing Climate
Mawra Ishaq, Muhammad Mubeen, Sajjad Hussain, Hafiz Umar Farid, Ayman El Sabagh, Wajid Nasim, Mazhar Ali, Nasir Masood, Sajjad Ahmad, Hafiz Muhammad Rashad Javeed, Muhammad Amjad, Behzad Murtaza, Hafiz Mohkum Hammad, Maham Tariq, Muhammad Anwar-Ul-Haq, and Muhammad Habib Ur Rahman

13. Nanoparticles as a Trend in Integrated Pest Management
El-Said M. Elnabawy, Muhammad Jafir, Mohamed S. Zayed, and El-Kazafy A. Taha

14. Utilization of Nanomaterials in Agriculture and Categorizing Review Studies on the Subject
Ali Ihsan Kaya, Mehmet Firat Baran, Karthika Rajendran, Mohammad Sohidul Islam, and Ayman El Sabagh

Index


About the Authors / Editors:
Editors: Ashwani Kumar, PhD
Associate Professor, Metagenomics and Secretomics Research Laboratory, Department of Botany, University of Allahabad (A Central University), Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, India

Ashwani Kumar, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Botany at the Metagenomics and Secretomics Research Laboratory of the University of Allahabad (A Central University), Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, India. Before this, he worked for more than nine years at Dr Harisingh Gour Vishwavidyalaya University, Sagar, India. His research focuses on plant-microbe interactions, metagenomics, lignocellulosic biofuels, and bioremediation. He is a life member and/or fellow of the Biotech Research Society India, the National Institute of Ecology, and the International Society of Environmental Botanists in India, and the Linnean Society of London. He published over 80 articles, 30 book chapters, and one edited book. He is serving as an editorial board member for several prestigious journals. He has been featured in the list of Top 2% Scientists Worldwide 2023 by Stanford University. He earned his PhD in bioenergy from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India, and was a postdoctoral fellow (2011–2013) at the Durban University of Technology and Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa. He earned several awards and fellowships.

Ayamn El Sabagh, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Field Crops, Faculty of Agriculture, Siirt University, Siirt, Turkey

Ayamn El Sabagh, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Field Crops at the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Siirt University, Turkey, where he is working on sustainability, crop productivity, and stress management of field crops under the current climatic era. He has worked on several internationally funded projects and is involved in many academic and administrative activities at the institute/university level. He has published more than 100 research and review papers in peer-reviewed reputed journals. He has also contributed over 50 chapters to books published at the international level. Dr. El Sabagh graduated from Kafrelsheikh University, Egypt, and earned his PhD from the Graduate School of Biosphere Science, Hiroshima University, Japan, under the Egyptian Ministry of Higher Education channel program, where he contributed to studying the physiological approaches for enhancing the stress tolerance of crop plants as a postdoctoral fellow. He performed research at Cukurova University, Turkey, as a postdoctoral fellow funded by TÜBITAK-Turkey. Recently, he was awarded inclusion in the Talented Young Scientist Program (TYSP) at the Crop Research Institute of Jiangxi Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China.




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