1st Edition
Nanotechnology for Agriculture A Potential Tool for Abiotic Stress Tolerance
Preface
Introduction
Sherif A. El Safty
1. Nanotechnologies: New Opportunities in Agriculture
Carine Nono Temegne, Annie Stephanie Nana, Emmanuel Youmbi, Mohammad Sohidul Islam, Muhammad Aamir Iqbal, Muhammad Zahid Ihsan, Disna Ratnasekera, Celaluddin Barutcular, Ömer Konuskan, and Ayman El Sabagh
2. Nano-Priming as Seed Priming Technology for Sustainable Agriculture
Fatih Çið, Rojin Özek, Murat Erman, Sipan Soysal, Özge Uçar, Zeki Erden, Mustafa Ceritoðlu, Çaðdaþ Can Toprak, Sönmez Özbey, Muhammad A. Raza, Javeed A. Lone, Saifullah Abro, Muhammad Arshad, and Mehmet Efe
3. Nanotechnology: A Tool for Mitigating Abiotic Stresses in Crop Plants
Talha Javed, Rubab Shabbir, Sadam Hussain, Siraj Ahmed, Muhammad Saqib, Karthika Rajendran, Doðan Arslan, Aynur Bilmez Özçinar, and Ayman El Sabagh
4. Nano-Silicon-Mediated Abiotic Stress Resistance in Plants: Mechanisms of Stress Mitigation
Dinoo Gunasekera, Disna Ratnasekera, Basharat Ali, Mohammad Sohidul Islam, Uzma Younis, Sharif Ahmed, Semih Açikbaþ, Nizamettin Turan, Seyithan Seydoþoðlu, and Ayman Elsabagh
5. Nanotechnology: A Sustainable Approach for Combating Climate Change
Sumit Sow, Shivani Ranjan, Sanjay Kumar, Mainak Ghosh, Navnit Kumar, Smruti Ranjan Padhan, Arzu Çið, Fatih Çið, and Ayman El Sabagh
6. Nanotechnology: A Way Forward for Insect Pest Management
Sheikh Aafreen Rehman, Sajad A. Ganie, Tamjeeda Nisar, Javeed A. Lone, Muhammad Jafir, Jamila Dirbas, and Ayman El Sabagh
7. Nano-Fertilizers for Sustainable Agriculture under Limited Abiotic Conditions
Anamika Dubey, Diksha Saiyam, Ashwani Kumar, Mohammed Latif Khan, and Ayman El Sabagh
8. Enhancing Photosynthetic Efficiency of Crops through Metabolic Engineering and Nanoformulations
Chukwuma C. Ogbaga, Habib-Ur-Rehman Athar, Disna Ratnasekera, Hussan Bano, Aneela Kanwal Shahzadi, Misbah Amir, Islam F. Hassan, Godswill Ntsomboh-Ntsefong, Nugun P. Jellason, Jude A. Okolie, and Ayman El Sabagh
9. The Effect of Nanoparticles on the Production and Quality of Medicinal Plants
Gülen Özyazici
10. The Effect of Nanoparticles on the Production and Quality of Forage Crops
Mehmet Arif Özyazici
11. Applications of Nanoparticles for Improving Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Cotton
Muhammad Ikram, Muhammad Faizan Khurram Maqsood, Abdul Rauf, Maryam Tahira, Maria Batool, Imran Khan, Asif Minhas, Jamila Dirbas, Muhammad Aamir Iqbal, Mohammad Sohidul Islam, Subhan Danish, Cetin Karademir, Emine Karademir, Rukiye Kiliç, and Ayman El Sabagh
12. Nanotechnology in Agriculture: Current Trends and Future Prospects under Changing Climate
Mawra Ishaq, Muhammad Mubeen, Sajjad Hussain, Hafiz Umar Farid, Ayman El Sabagh, Wajid Nasim, Mazhar Ali, Nasir Masood, Sajjad Ahmad, Hafiz Muhammad Rashad Javeed, Muhammad Amjad, Behzad Murtaza, Hafiz Mohkum Hammad, Maham Tariq, Muhammad Anwar-Ul-Haq, and Muhammad Habib Ur Rahman
13. Nanoparticles: A Trend in Integrated Pest Management
El-Said M. Elnabawy, Muhammad Jafir, Mohamed S. Zayed, and El-Kazafy A. Taha
14. Utilization of Nanomaterials in Agriculture and Categorizing Review Studies on the Subject
Ali Ihsan Kaya, Mehmet Firat Baran, Karthika Rajendran, Mohammad Sohidul Islam, and Ayman El Sabagh
Biography
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 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, the International Society of Environmental Botanists in India, and the Linnean Society of London. He published many articles, book chapters, and one edited book. He is 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 has earned several awards and fellowships.
Ayman 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 published more than 100 research and review papers in peer-reviewed reputed journals. He has also contributed many book chapters. 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. He also performed research at Cukurova University, 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.
