Enhancing Crop Productivity in Salt-Affected Environments by Stimulating Soil Biological Processes and Remediation Using Nanotechnology

Nanomaterials and plant abiotic stress in agroecosystems

“…Due to their unique characteristics, nanomaterials already have been used in several applications including medicinal, industrial and agricultural sectors (Servin and White 2016;Zhang et al 2016;Zuverza-Mena et al 2017). Concerning the agricultural application of nanomaterials, there is an increasing and unlimited uses in agriculture and food systems including nanofertilizers (Tarafdar et al 2014;Chhipa and Joshi 2016;Dubey and Mailapalli 2016), nanopesticides (Chhipa and Joshi 2016;Dubey and Mailapalli 2016), soil nano-reclaimants (Patra et al 2016;Floris et al 2017), nanosensors for nano-farming (Honeychurch 2014;Chhipa and Joshi 2016;Dubey and Mailapalli 2016;Yılmaz et al 2017), soil and water nanoremediators, etc. (Ingle et al 2014;Gomes et al 2016;Gil-Díaz et al 2016a, b;Gil-Díaz et al 2017).…”

“…The main distinguished effect of plant abiotic stress is to cause in general the oxidative stress (Servin and White 2016). Under this oxidative stress, nanomaterials may help stressed-plants in enhancing their defense system including the antioxidative enzymes mainly peroxidase, superoxide dismutase and catalase (Patra et al 2016). On the other hand, these nanomaterials under higher concerntration may cause also oxidative stress on plants (Li et al 2015;Zhang et al 2015;Saharan and Pal 2016; due to the accummulation of reactive species (oxygen and nitrogen) leading to a damage in proteins, nucleic acids and cell membrane .…”

“…These physicochemical properties include a very high reactivity, high surface area, tunable pore size and particle morphology (Belal and El-Ramady 2016; Mani and Mondal 2016;Panpatte et al 2016;Servin and White 2016;Shalaby et al 2016). Concerning the agricultural sectors, the applications of nanotechnology have been used in several fields including the fertilization sector (Mastronardi et al2015;Chhipa 2016;Chhipa and Joshi 2016;Dubey and Mailapalli 2016;Mani et al 2016;Monreal et al 2016;Panpatte et al 2016), plant protection (Bhattacharyya et al 2016Nuruzzaman et al 2016;Saharan and Pal 2016;, food sector (Ghanbarzadeh et al 2016;Eleftheriadou et al 2017;Grumezescu 2017;, precision farming (Gouma et al 2016;Chhipa and Joshi 2016;Neethirajan 2017), remediation of terrestrial environments (Belal and El-Ramady 2016;Gil-Díaz et al 2016a, b;Gomes et al 2016;Patra et al 2016;Gil-Díaz et al 2017), etc. These nanoparticles or nanomaterials can enhance the ability of plants to uptake nutrients, therefore increase the fertility of soils as well as crop production.…”

“…These nanoparticles or nanomaterials can enhance the ability of plants to uptake nutrients, therefore increase the fertility of soils as well as crop production. Moreover, saltaffected soils management also can be achieved using these nanomaterials (Patra et al 2016).…”

Extreme salinity as a challenge to grow potatoes under Mars-like soil conditions: targeting promising genotypes

“…testing previous leaching treatments) but also improve the fertility level of Martian regolith through the incorporation of organic matter recycled Extreme salinity as a challenge to grow potatoes under Mars-like soil conditions 21 from solid waste composting activities from the human habitat (Silverstone et al 2003;Nelson et al 2008). The use of microorganisms to degrade organic matter (Kanazawa et al 2008) and process remnant salt components (Matsubara et al 2017), including nanoparticles for soil remediation (Patra et al 2016), will be important for a sustainable SBA in Mars. Indeed, Martian regolith has high presence of different types of salts and evaporitic minerals i.e.…”