Nanotechnology for Agriculture: A Potential Tool for Abiotic Stress Tolerance

This new book throws light on the use of nanoparticles as nanofertifilizers and details their prospective applications in agricultural science, including their use in minimizing the consequences of climate change, enhancing nutrient utilization efficiency, and achieving abiotic stress management. With chapters contributed by expert researchers from around the world, this book summarizes the importance of nanotechnology in abiotic stress tolerance in crop plants, presenting the latest research on the application of nanotechnology in agriculture crop production, its various applications in crop growth enhancement under different abiotic stress conditions, and the uses of various nanoparticles in agriculture for better yield and productivity.

The book covers some of the latest trends and prospects of nanotechnology in promoting sustainable agriculture through nanofertilizers, nanopesticides, nanoencapsulation, nanosensors, nanobarcodes, and intelligent distribution systems. It also details important topics such as nanopriming as seed priming technology for sustainable agriculture, the role of Si and nano-silicon (SiNP) in ameliorating biotic and abiotic stresses, and more. The use of nanotechnology in specific plants is also discussed, such as, for example, in cotton, forage crops, medicinal crops, etc.

Ashwani Kumar, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Botany at the Metagenomics and Secretomics Research Laboratory of the University of Allahabad (A Central University), Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, India. Before this, he worked for more than nine years at Dr Harisingh Gour Vishwavidyalaya University, Sagar, India. His research focuses on plant-microbe interactions, metagenomics, lignocellulosic biofuels, and bioremediation. He is a life member and/or fellow of the Biotech Research Society India, the National Institute of Ecology, and the International Society of Environmental Botanists in India, and the Linnean Society of London. He published over 80 articles, 30 book chapters, and one edited book. He is serving as an editorial board member for several prestigious journals. He has been featured in the list of Top 2% Scientists Worldwide 2023 by Stanford University. He earned his PhD in bioenergy from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India, and was a postdoctoral fellow (2011-2013) at the Durban University of Technology and Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa. He earned several awards and fellowships.

Ayamn El Sabagh, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Siirt University, Turkey, where he is working on sustainability, crop productivity, and stress management of field crops under the current climatic era. He has worked on several internationally funded projects and is involved in many academic and administrative activities at the institute/university level. He has published more than 100 research and review papers in peer-reviewed reputed journals. He has also contributed over 50 chapters to books published at the international level. Dr. El Sabagh graduated from Kafrelsheikh University, Egypt, and earned his PhD from the Graduate School of Biosphere Science, Hiroshima University, Japan, under the Egyptian Ministry of Higher Education channel program, where he contributed to studying the physiological approaches for enhancing the stress tolerance of crop plants as a postdoctoral fellow. He performed research at Cukurova University, Turkey, as a postdoctoral fellow funded by TÜBITAK-Turkey. Recently, he was awarded inclusion in the Talented Young Scientist Program (TYSP) at the Crop Research Institute of Jiangxi Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China.