Nanotechnology for Sustainable Agriculture: An Innovative and Eco-Friendly Approach

Vishnu D. Rajput · Abhishek Singh · Tatiana M. Minkina · Krishan K. Verma · Awani Kumar Singh

Sep 2023 · CRC Press

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This new volume explores the important and cutting-edge roles that nanotechnology can play in facilitating sustainable agriculture. It provides recent updates on nanobiotechnology in soil science, plant breeding, food science, agricultural tool design and utilization, as well as the impacts of such approaches on properties of soils and plants. The book looks at the use of nanotechnology for crop production and protection, in the creation and application of pesticides, to enhance soil fertility and soil health, as a mitigating factor of plant abiotic stress, and more. The volume explores emerging nanotechnological tools and techniques for crop improvement that include space-inspired speed breeding for crop improvement, nanoparticles as sensing materials, plant nanobionics, nanopore DNA sequencing, and more.

About the author

Vishnu D. Rajput, PhD, is Associate Professor and Leading Researcher at Southern Federal University. His ongoing research is based on advanced topics in soil contamination. He has published many peer-reviewed articles, books, book chapters, and conference articles.

Abhishek Singh, PhD, is a Research Scholar at Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel University of Agriculture and Technology, Uttar Pradesh, India. He has published book chapters, review papers, abstracts, and Hindi English popular articles and has presented his work at professional conferences.

Tatiana Minkina, PhD, is Head of the Soil Science and Land Evaluation Department of Southern Federal University. She is also head of the internationally accredited master’s degree program "Management and Estimation of Land Resources." A prolific author, she has published numerous scientific publications and has been an invited editor of the MDPI Journal Water.

Krishan K. Verma, PhD, is a Visiting Scientist at the Sugarcane Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and Guangxi Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Guangxi, China. He has 10 years of research experience in the field of biotic and abiotic stresses, and has published over 50 scientific research articles, including five books.

Awani Kumar Singh, PhD
, is a Principal Scientist of Horticulture-Vegetable Science at the ICAR-IARI, New Delhi, India. He has developed several high-yielding varieties of different vegetable crops and has published many research papers, abstracts, book chapters, training manuals, and other publications, as well as three books. He has delivered many TV and radio talks on the topic of protected cultivation.

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