TY - CHAP
T1 - Carbon-Based Nanomaterials
T2 - An Efficient Tool for Improving the Nutritional Quality of Crops
AU - Sasidharan, V.
AU - Damiri, Fouad
AU - Talreja, Neetu
AU - Chauhan, Divya
AU - Mangalaraja, R. V.
AU - Berrada, Mohammed
AU - Ashfaq, Mohammad
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022.
PY - 2022/1/1
Y1 - 2022/1/1
N2 - One of the essential tasks while practicing agricultural sustainability is maintaining nutrition quality while improving crop growth and production, as nutritional deficiencies within the plants are serious threats that affect human health. In this context, carbon-based nanomaterials (CNMs), including carbon nanotubes (CNTs), carbon nanofibers (CNFs), graphene, etc., and their metallic, non-metallic composites have great potential to improve crop production as well as nutritional quality due to their significant properties such as high surface polarity, large pore size distribution, translocation, low toxicity, high biocompatibility, and binding at the target site due to opposite polarity. Herein, we discuss the CNMs and their role in improving the nutrition quality of the plant. The participation of CNMs and their composites in several nutrition cycles inside the plant and their working direction have also been discussed in detail. This chapter also summarizes the toxic effects of engineered CNMs in plants and their ultimate development in the nutritional quality of the crop. Comparison of a wide range of CNMs applied to improve the quality of crops production and their nutritional values.
AB - One of the essential tasks while practicing agricultural sustainability is maintaining nutrition quality while improving crop growth and production, as nutritional deficiencies within the plants are serious threats that affect human health. In this context, carbon-based nanomaterials (CNMs), including carbon nanotubes (CNTs), carbon nanofibers (CNFs), graphene, etc., and their metallic, non-metallic composites have great potential to improve crop production as well as nutritional quality due to their significant properties such as high surface polarity, large pore size distribution, translocation, low toxicity, high biocompatibility, and binding at the target site due to opposite polarity. Herein, we discuss the CNMs and their role in improving the nutrition quality of the plant. The participation of CNMs and their composites in several nutrition cycles inside the plant and their working direction have also been discussed in detail. This chapter also summarizes the toxic effects of engineered CNMs in plants and their ultimate development in the nutritional quality of the crop. Comparison of a wide range of CNMs applied to improve the quality of crops production and their nutritional values.
KW - Carbon-based nanomaterials
KW - Composite
KW - Nutrition
KW - Plant growth
KW - Translocation
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85160495977&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-981-16-7262-0_17
DO - 10.1007/978-981-16-7262-0_17
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85160495977
SN - 9789811672613
SP - 375
EP - 389
BT - Metabolic Engineering in Plants
PB - Springer Nature
ER -
