Euro-Mediterranean Journal for Environmental Integration, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown
Published: Oct. 29, 2024
Language: Английский
Agrochemicals, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 2(2), P. 296 - 336
Published: June 9, 2023
In an alarming tale of agricultural excess, the relentless overuse chemical fertilizers in modern farming methods have wreaked havoc on once-fertile soil, mercilessly depleting its vital nutrients while inflicting irreparable harm delicate balance surrounding ecosystem. The excessive use such leaves residue products, pollutes environment, upsets agrarian ecosystems, and lowers soil quality. Furthermore, a significant proportion nutrient content, including nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, is lost from (50–70%) before being utilized. Nanofertilizers, other hand, nanoparticles to control release nutrients, making them more efficient cost-effective than traditional fertilizers. Nanofertilizers comprise one or plant within where at least 50% particles are smaller 100 nanometers. Carbon nanotubes, graphene, quantum dots some examples types nanomaterials used production nanofertilizers. new generation that utilize advanced nanotechnology provide sustainable method fertilizing crops. They designed deliver controlled manner, ensuring gradually released over extended period, thus providing steady supply essential elements plants. controlled-release system fertilizers, as it reduces need for frequent application amount fertilizer. These high surface area-to-volume ratio, ideal holding releasing nutrients. Naturally occurring found various sources, volcanic ash, ocean, biological matter viruses dust. However, regarding large-scale production, relying solely naturally may not be sufficient practical. agriculture, has been primarily increase crop minimizing losses activating defense mechanisms against pests, insects, environmental challenges. nanofertilizers can reduce runoff leaching into improving sustainability. also improve fertilizer efficiency, leading higher yields reducing overall cost application. especially beneficial areas inefficient ineffective. way fertilize crops impact product promising technology help meet increasing demand food Currently, face limitations, costs potential safety concerns due nanomaterials, further research needed fully understand their long-term effects health, growth, environment.
Language: Английский
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The Science of The Total Environment, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 926, P. 171862 - 171862
Published: March 23, 2024
Language: Английский
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The Science of The Total Environment, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 870, P. 161927 - 161927
Published: Jan. 31, 2023
Language: Английский
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Plant Nano Biology, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 5, P. 100044 - 100044
Published: Aug. 1, 2023
Nanotechnology has revolutionized almost every aspect of our lives, and agriculture is no exception. Introducing nanofertilizer (NF) technology in can transform how we grow crops increase yields while minimizing environmental impact. NFs agricultural profits lessening the harm caused by conventional fertilizers. As it already a robust infrastructure, fertilizer sector particularly positioned to gain from development NF manufacturing. Nevertheless, encouraging industry adopt this new fraught with difficulties like issue regulatory obstacles. Governments must set regulations businesses engage nanotechnology research safeguarding public health safety any dangers these products may bring. Nanomaterials also be expensive since they require specialized storage facilities or shipping containers produced on big scale. The small size nanoparticles makes challenging transport store them safely. production economics crucial persuading manufacturers fertilizers that investing developing technologies will pay off financially. This especially true many raw materials used make are more than those traditional Therefore, scientists working aim create procedures would result cost savings through higher yield rates obtained using nano-based fertilization techniques compared existing bulk systems. way, making costs creating comparable possible enough encourage wider involvement throughout global industry. No data was for described article.
Language: Английский
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Agrochemicals, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 2(2), P. 257 - 278
Published: June 5, 2023
The microflora of the soil is adversely affected by chemical fertilizers. Excessive use fertilizers has increased crop yield dramatically at cost vigor. pH temporarily changed fertilizers, which kill beneficial and can cause absorption stress on plants. This leads to higher dosages during application, causing groundwater leaching environmental toxicity. Nanofertilizers (NFs) reduce quantity fertilizer needed in agriculture, enhance nutrient uptake efficiency, decrease loss due runoff leaching. Moreover, NFs be used for or foliar applications have shown promising results a variety plant species. main constituents nanomaterials are micro- macronutrient precursors their properties nanoscale. Innovative approaches application as growth promoter crops, modes mechanism tissues reviewed this article. In addition, review analyzes potential shortcomings future considerations commercial agricultural NFs.
Language: Английский
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Nanoscale, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 16(9), P. 4484 - 4513
Published: Jan. 1, 2024
The escalating global demand for food production has predominantly relied on the extensive application of conventional fertilizers (CFs).
Language: Английский
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Frontiers in Microbiology, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 15
Published: March 6, 2024
Globally, food security has become a critical concern due to the rise in human population and current climate change crisis. Usage of conventional agrochemicals maximize crop yields resulted degradation fertile soil, environmental pollution as well agroecosystem health risks. Nanotechnology agriculture is fast-emerging new area research explored improve productivity nutrient-use efficiency using nano-sized at lower doses than agrochemicals. Nanoparticles are applied nanofertilizers and/or nanopesticides. Positive results have been observed terms plant growth when nano-based agricultural amendments. However, their continuous application may adverse effects on plant-associated rhizospheric endospheric microorganisms which often play crucial role growth, nutrient uptake, disease prevention. While shows that nanoparticles potential yield, effect diversity function remains under-explored. This review provides an overview functions. Additionally, it highlights response nanoparticle insight into areas required promote sustainable precision practices incorporate
Language: Английский
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The Science of The Total Environment, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 929, P. 172533 - 172533
Published: April 21, 2024
Language: Английский
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Sustainability, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 14(6), P. 3480 - 3480
Published: March 16, 2022
The global food production for the worldwide population mainly depends on huge contributions of agricultural sector. cultivated crops foods need various elements or nutrients to complete their growth, and these are indirectly consumed by humans. During this production, several environmental constraints stresses may cause losses in production. These obstacles include abiotic biotic stresses, which have already been studied both individual combined cases. However, there very few studies multiple stresses. On basis myriad benefits nanotechnology agriculture, nanofertilizers (or nanonutrients) become promising tools sustainability. Nanofertilizers also proper solution overcoming health problems that can result from conventional fertilizers. role has increased, especially under different individual, combined, most commonly nature; however, still needed stress levels. play a crucial supporting plants improving plant yield, quantitatively qualitatively. Similar other biological issues, many open-ended questions require further investigation: Is right time era agriculture? Will be dominant source modern Are nanofertilizers, particularly synthesized ones, magic sustainable What expected damages plants?
Language: Английский
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Plants, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 11(13), P. 1659 - 1659
Published: June 23, 2022
Drought stress is known as a major yield-limiting factor in crop production that threatens food security worldwide. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) and titanium dioxide (TiO2) have shown to alleviate the effects of drought on plants, but information regarding their co-addition minimize plants scant. Here, two-year field experiment was conducted 2019 2020 evaluate influence different irrigation regimes fertilizer sources EO quantity quality sage (Salvia officinalis L.). The laid out split plot arranged randomized complete block design with three replicates. treatments were 25, 50, 75% maximum allowable depletion (MAD) percentage soil available water non-stress (MAD25), moderate (MAD50), severe (MAD75) stress, respectively. Subplots four including no-fertilizer control, TiO2 nanoparticles (100 mg L-1), AMF inoculation, (TiO2 + AMF). Moderate decreased dry matter yield (DMY) by 30 65%, In contrast, application increased DMY use efficiency (WUE) 35 35%, respectively, compared unfertilized treatment. highest content (1.483%), (2.52 g m-2), cis-thujone (35.84%, main constituent sage) obtained MAD50 fertilized AMF. addition, net income index 44, 47, 76% nanoparticles, AMF, Overall, integrative biofertilizer AMF) can be recommended sustainable strategy for increasing improving productivity conditions. Future policy discussions should focus incentivizing growers replacing synthetic fertilizers proven nano biofertilizers reduce environmental footprints enhance sustainability production, especially
Language: Английский
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