Nanotechnology - Big impact: How nanotechnology is changing the future of agriculture?

Journal of Agriculture and Food Research, Год журнала: 2022, Номер 10, С. 100457 - 100457

Опубликована: Ноя. 19, 2022

The global climate change and rapid population increase are raising challenges for food security, it demands efficient crop improvement methods that ensure superior quality quantity of the crops. advancements in nanotechnology can be explored to enhance sustainable improvement. Recently, has made massive revolutions solving various problems faced by human population, including agriculture, environment sectors. In implications on every stage farming, seed germination, growth, harvest, processing, storage transport agricultural products. Nano fertilisers, nano herbicides, nano-fungicides, biosensors, nanoscale genetic carriers, nano-bioremediating agents nanocomposites packing novel applications area. Nanotechnology ensures site-specific delivery nutrients plant's target region, which minimises loss increases efficiency. reduced size nanomaterials offers a broader surface area pesticides drastically escalating disease pest control crops as they promise overcome shortcomings caused traditional pesticide application. advancement is rapidly contributing digitalization agriculture also. For example, widens horizons high-tech farms with aid biosensors. synthesis enzymes also revolutionized stress-tolerant mechanism plants acting an antioxidant enzyme, been widely used against salinity tolerance recently. contribution effective transfer material gene editing engineering techniques significantly contributed towards Nanobioremediation nanophotocatalysis remove toxic substances from environment. It clear that, driven agri-food sector expected bloom near future. This review article summarizes potential benefits related fields, industry. Although lot betterment world ways, face several limitations. Despite being frontier scientific modern era, negative impacts cannot sidelined. Therefore, this discusses limitations last section.

Язык: Английский

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Agronomic Biofortification with Se, Zn, and Fe: An Effective Strategy to Enhance Crop Nutritional Quality and Stress Defense—A Review

Journal of soil science and plant nutrition, Год журнала: 2021, Номер 22(1), С. 1129 - 1159

Опубликована: Дек. 3, 2021

Abstract Human micronutrient deficiencies are a widespread problem worldwide and mainly concern people whose diet (mainly of plant origin) consists insufficient amounts critical vitamins minerals. Low levels micronutrients in plants linked to, i.e., their decreasing concentration soils and/or low bioavailability presence abiotic stresses which disturb the proper growth development plants. Agronomic biofortification crops is very promising way to improve edible parts without compromising yield recognized as cheapest strategy alleviate hidden hunger worldwide. The review focused on factors influencing effectiveness biofortified (a type application, form, dose applied microelement, biofertilizers, nanofertilizers). Also, accumulation zinc, selenium, iron crops, effects metabolism, morphological parameters, an impact plants’ defense mechanisms against stress like salt, high/low temperature, heavy metal, drought was discussed. Finally, directions future agronomic studies proposed.

Язык: Английский

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Edible Mushrooms for Sustainable and Healthy Human Food: Nutritional and Medicinal Attributes

Sustainability, Год журнала: 2022, Номер 14(9), С. 4941 - 4941

Опубликована: Апрель 20, 2022

Global food production faces many challenges, including climate change, a water crisis, land degradation, and desertification. These challenges require research into non-traditional sources of human foods. Edible mushrooms are considered an important next-generation healthy source. rich in proteins, dietary fiber, vitamins, minerals, other bioactive components (alkaloids, lactones, polysaccharides, polyphenolic compounds, sesquiterpenes, sterols, terpenoids). Several ingredients can be extracted from edible incorporated health-promoting supplements. It has been suggested that several diseases treated with extracts mushrooms, as these have biological effects anticancer, antidiabetic, antiviral, antioxidant, hepatoprotective, immune-potentiating, hypo-cholesterolemic influences. The current study focuses on sustainable approaches for handling their secondary metabolites, biofortification. Comparisons between poisonous well the common species different ingredients, crucial. Nutritional values health benefits biomedical applications, also emphasized. Further is needed to explore economic sustainability medicinal mushroom compound potential applications against emerging such COVID-19. New nano-biofortification supply essential nutrients and/or increase ingredients.

Язык: Английский

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Immunomodulatory biomaterials against bacterial infections: Progress, challenges, and future perspectives

The Innovation, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 4(6), С. 100503 - 100503

Опубликована: Авг. 29, 2023

•Insights into the intricate facets of immune microenvironment hold key to pioneering clinical strategies in combatting bacterial infections.•The design principles for antimicrobial biomaterials vary depending on at different stages infection.•Immunomodulatory display robust efficacy and vaccine attributes animals trials, promising intractable infections. Bacterial infectious diseases are one leading causes death worldwide. Even with use multiple antibiotic treatment strategies, 4.95 million people died from drug-resistant infections 2019. By 2050, number deaths will reach 10 annually. The increasing mortality may be partly due heterogeneity infection microenvironment, such as bacteria, biofilms, persister cells, intracellular small colony variants. In addition, complexity makes direct activity unsatisfactory long-term chronic attributed failing modulate active action cells. Therefore, there is an urgent need effective alternatives treat Accordingly, development immunomodulatory has recently received considerable interest; however, a comprehensive review their research progress lacking. this review, we focus mainly future perspectives used infection. First, describe characteristics acute phases Then, highlight corresponding advantages disadvantages. Moreover, discuss biomaterial-mediated vaccines' potential applications challenges activating innate adaptive memory. This serve reference studies develop next-generation accelerate translation practice.

Язык: Английский

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Prospects of microgreens as budding living functional food: Breeding and biofortification through OMICS and other approaches for nutritional security

Frontiers in Genetics, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 14

Опубликована: Янв. 25, 2023

Nutrient deficiency has resulted in impaired growth and development of the population globally. Microgreens are considered immature greens (required light for photosynthesis growing medium) developed from seeds vegetables, legumes, herbs, cereals. These “living superfood/functional food” due to presence chlorophyll, beta carotene, lutein, minerals like magnesium (Mg), Potassium (K), Phosphorus (P), Calcium (Ca). rich at nutritional level contain several phytoactive compounds (carotenoids, phenols, glucosinolates, polysterols) that helpful human health on Earth space their anti-microbial, anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, anti-carcinogenic properties. can be used as plant-based nutritive vegetarian foods will fruitful a nourishing constituent food industryfor garnish purposes, complement flavor, texture, color salads, soups, flat-breads, pizzas, sandwiches (substitute lettuce tacos, sandwich, burger). Good handling practices may enhance microgreens’stability, storage, shelf-life under appropriate conditions, including light, temperature, nutrients, humidity, substrate. Moreover, substrate liquid solution (hydroponic system) or solid medium (coco peat, coconut fiber, coir dust husks, sand, vermicompost, sugarcane filter cake, etc. ) based variety microgreens. However integrated multiomics approaches alongwith nutriomics foodomics explored utilized identify breed most potential microgreen genotypes, biofortify increasing content (macro-elements:K, Ca Mg; oligo-elements: Fe Zn antioxidant activity) microgreens related other traits viz., fast growth, good values, high germination percentage, through implementation includes genomics, transcriptomics, sequencing-based approaches, molecular breeding, machine learning, nanoparticles, seed priming strategiesetc.

Язык: Английский

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In-depth Exploration of Nanoparticles for Enhanced Nutrient Use Efficiency and Abiotic Stresses Management: Present Insights and Future Horizons

Plant Stress, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 14, С. 100576 - 100576

Опубликована: Авг. 25, 2024

Язык: Английский

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Assessment of Biofortification Approaches Used to Improve Micronutrient-Dense Plants That Are a Sustainable Solution to Combat Hidden Hunger

Journal of soil science and plant nutrition, Год журнала: 2021, Номер 22(1), С. 475 - 500

Опубликована: Ноя. 4, 2021

Язык: Английский

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Nano Zinc-Enabled Strategies in Crops for Combatting Zinc Malnutrition in Human Health

Frontiers in Bioscience-Landmark, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 28(8)

Опубликована: Авг. 7, 2023

Deficits in the mineral Zn are responsible for a sizable proportion of world’s disease burden and child mortality. With increasing success rate biofortification major crops, development genotype with enhanced bioavailability will be an efficient sustainable solution to nutrient deficiency-related problems. Due complex chemistry human system, absorption from cereals is lower. This complexity alleviated by phytate, phosphorus-storing compound cereal legume seeds, which negatively affects binding. The results recent studies on distribution elements micronutrient speciation seeds provide strong evidence presence distinct pools. observation supported data biofortified transgenic plant research. Several identify nicotinamide, metal chelator, as pivotal molecule. loading into grains has been reported increase nicotinamide levels, crucial finding. Intestinal can greatly improved nicotinamide. Furthermore, tests suggest that use nano Zn-enabled devices could effective strategy enable biofortification, may significantly boost content various crops. review comprehensively evaluated scientific publications indexed WoS, Scopus, other reliable databases explored insights how nano-enabled technology enhancing crops combating malnutrition humans.

Язык: Английский

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Genetic biofortification: advancing crop nutrition to tackle hidden hunger

Functional & Integrative Genomics, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 24(2)

Опубликована: Фев. 16, 2024

Язык: Английский

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Zinc glycerolate (Glyzinc): A novel foliar fertilizer for zinc biofortification and cadmium reduction in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)

Food Chemistry, Год журнала: 2022, Номер 402, С. 134290 - 134290

Опубликована: Сен. 17, 2022

Язык: Английский

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