Technology readiness and overcoming barriers to sustainably implement nanotechnology-enabled plant agriculture

T Hofmann, GV Lowry, S Ghoshal, N Tufenkji… - Nature Food, 2020 - nature.com
Nanotechnology offers potential solutions for sustainable agriculture, including increasing
nutrient utilization efficiency, improving the efficacy of pest management, mitigating the …

Seed biofortification by engineered nanomaterials: a pathway to alleviate malnutrition?

R De La Torre-Roche, J Cantu, C Tamez… - Journal of Agricultural …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Micronutrient deficiencies in global food chains are a significant cause of ill health around
the world, particularly in developing countries. Agriculture is the primary source of nutrients …

Advanced material modulation of nutritional and phytohormone status alleviates damage from soybean sudden death syndrome

C Ma, J Borgatta, BG Hudson, AA Tamijani… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract Customized Cu3 (PO4) 2 and CuO nanosheets and commercial CuO nanoparticles
were investigated for micronutrient delivery and suppression of soybean sudden death …

Foliar exposure of Fe3O4 nanoparticles on Nicotiana benthamiana: Evidence for nanoparticles uptake, plant growth promoter and defense response elicitor against …

L Cai, L Cai, H Jia, C Liu, D Wang, X Sun - Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2020 - Elsevier
Nanoparticles are recently employed as a new strategy to directly kill pathogens (eg,
bacteria and fungus) and acted as nanofertilizers. However, the influences of this foliar …

Elemental sulfur nanoparticles enhance disease resistance in tomatoes

X Cao, C Wang, X Luo, L Yue, JC White, W Elmer… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
In agriculture, loss of crop yield to pathogen damage seriously threatens efforts to achieve
global food security. In the present work,“organic” elemental sulfur nanoparticles (SNPs) …

Emerging investigator series: molecular mechanisms of plant salinity stress tolerance improvement by seed priming with cerium oxide nanoparticles

J An, P Hu, F Li, H Wu, Y Shen, JC White… - Environmental …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Engineered nanomaterials interfaced with plant seeds can improve stress tolerance during
the vulnerable seedling stage. Herein, we investigated how priming seeds with antioxidant …

Lanthanum silicate nanomaterials enhance sheath blight resistance in rice: mechanisms of action and soil health evaluation

X Cao, X Chen, Y Liu, C Wang, L Yue, WH Elmer… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
In the current study, foliar spray with lanthanum (La) based nanomaterials (La10Si6O27
nanorods, La10Si6O27 nanoparticle, La (OH) 3 nanorods, and La2O3 nanoparticle) …

Therapeutic delivery of nanoscale sulfur to suppress disease in tomatoes: in vitro imaging and orthogonal mechanistic investigation

Y Wang, C Deng, WH Elmer, CO Dimkpa, S Sharma… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Nanoscale sulfur can be a multifunctional agricultural amendment to enhance crop nutrition
and suppress disease. Pristine (nS) and stearic acid coated (cS) sulfur nanoparticles were …

Enhancing agrichemical delivery and plant development with biopolymer-based stimuli responsive core–shell nanostructures

T Xu, Y Wang, Z Aytac, N Zuverza-Mena, Z Zhao… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The inefficient delivery of agrichemicals in agrifood systems is among the leading cause of
serious negative planetary and public health impacts. Such inefficiency is mainly attributed …

Copper Oxide Nanoparticle-Embedded Hydrogels Enhance Nutrient Supply and Growth of Lettuce (Lactuca sativa) Infected with Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lactucae

H Shang, C Ma, C Li, J Zhao, W Elmer… - … science & technology, 2021 - ACS Publications
The use of nanotechnology to suppress crop diseases has attracted increasing attention in
agriculture. The present work investigated the antifungal efficacy of copper oxide …