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Nano-contaminants: Sources and Impact on Agriculture

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Nanotechnology is an emerging field of applied science that covers a wide range of techniques and manipulation of materials in the range of nanoscale (1–100 nm). It extends enormous application in the field of agriculture, horticulture, and biotechnology industries due to its unique physicochemical properties like high reactivity, enhanced bioavailability and bioactivity, adherence, and surface effect. It plays an important role in designing a novel method to produce new products, reformulate new materials and chemicals with better performance, resulting in less consumption of energy and materials. Properly functionalized nanoparticles (NPs) serve as “magic bullets” containing large number of genes, nanopesticide, or herbicide able to trigger gene expression and target particular organelles of the cells in plant to release their content. Till date, a lot of information is available on the beneficial effects of nanoparticles on plant system. Many studies have been already conducted and published, which show that by affecting the metabolic activity of plant, nanoparticles can employ the effects on plant growth and developmental conditions. This review summarizes that nanoparticles can adversely affect the plant development.

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Prasad, M., Gupta, A., Ranjan, R. (2020). Nano-contaminants: Sources and Impact on Agriculture. In: Naeem, M., Ansari, A., Gill, S. (eds) Contaminants in Agriculture. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41552-5_8

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