Nanotechnology in Sustainable Agriculture: Recent Developments, Challenges, and Perspectives

Abstract

Nanotechnology monitors a leading agricultural controlling process, especially by its miniature dimension. Additionally, many potential benefits such as enhancement of food quality and safety, reduction of agricultural inputs, enrichment of absorbing nanoscale nutrients from the soil, etc. allow the application of nanotechnology to be resonant encumbrance. Agriculture, food, and natural resources are a part of those challenges like sustainability, susceptibility, human health, and healthy life. The ambition of nanomaterials in agriculture is to reduce the amount of spread chemicals, minimize nutrient losses in fertilization and increased yield through pest and nutrient management. Nanotechnology has the prospective to improve the agriculture and food industry with novel nanotools for the controlling of rapid disease diagnostic, enhancing the capacity of plants to absorb nutrients among others. The significant interests of using nanotechnology in agriculture includes specific applications like nanofertilizers and nanopesticides to trail products and nutrients levels to increase the productivity without decontamination of soils, waters, and protection against several insect pest and microbial diseases. Nanotechnology may act as sensors for monitoring soil quality of agricultural field and thus it maintain the health of agricultural plants. This review covers the current challenges of sustainability, food security and climate change that are exploring by the researchers in the area of nanotechnology in the improvement of agriculture.

Green Synthesis of Nanofertilizers and Their Application as a Foliar forCucurbita pepoL

“…Recently, a wide range of nanotechnology applications has been intensively studied in the agriculture research sector developing practices at both academic and industrial levels [4][5][6]. In fact, nanotechnology has the potential to improve the entire current agricultural and food industry, by developing new tools for plant disease treatments [7], pathogen detection [8], and improving the ability of plants to absorb nutrients [9,10].…”

Environmental behavior, potential phytotoxicity, and accumulation of copper oxide nanoparticles and arsenic in rice plants

“…On the whole, the application of CuO NPs will keep increasing. However, the application of CuO NPs and other nanomaterials in agriculture is relatively new and has not yet become a common practice, although there are nano‐fertilizers freely available on the market . Thus, environmental toxicologists and chemists have the opportunity to assess potential beneficial and adverse effects from using CuO NPs and other nanomaterials before they are widely adopted in agriculture.…”

Nanosensors for diagnosis with optical, electric and mechanical transducers

“…5 The integration of ultrasensitive nanosensors with other instruments and detection phenomena will increase the competency of emerging nanotechnology to deal with point-of-care type pervasive detection systems. 6 Along with the different applications there are also different ways to read out nanosensors (e.g. optical, electrical, and mechanical) and different ways to manufacture them.…”