Advances and Applications of Sustainable Nanotechnology in Agricultural Industrial Processes

A special issue of Processes (ISSN 2227-9717). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental and Green Processes".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 April 2024) | Viewed by 1057

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Centro de Excelencia en Investigación Biotecnológica Aplicada al Medio Ambiente (CIBAMA), Facultad de Ingeniería y Ciencias, Universidad de La Frontera, Av. Francisco Salazar 01145, Temuco 4811230, Chile
Interests: environmental nanotechnology; polymeric and lipidic nanoparticles; bioactive compounds

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1. Scientific and Technological Bioresource Nucleus, Universidad de La Frontera, Temuco 4811230, Chile
2. Centro de Excelencia en Inv. Biotecnológica Aplicada al Medioambiente (CIBAMA), Universidad de La Frontera, Temuco 4811230, Chile
Interests: nanotechnology; environmental microbiology; environmental biotechnology
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Departamento de Horticultura, Universidad Autónoma Agraria Antonio Narro, Saltillo 25315, Mexico
Interests: research interests are directed towards plant biostimulation, plant nutrition, and stress tolerance induction and seed priming using nanometric or bulk species of essential and beneficial elements, biopolymers, and UV radiation; research focuses on the relationships between plant biostimulation, plant nutrition, tolerance to stress, and the nutritional quality and biofortification of vegetables and fruits
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Dear Colleagues,

Currently, the search for strategies that increase food production and reduce losses caused by phytopathogens is a major challenge in agriculture. The intensive application of agrochemicals has lead to pervasive environmental problems in the ecosystem and in human health. In this regard, nanotechnology emerges as a relevant strategy through which to improve plant growth and nutrition, as well as its potential application in order to control phytopathogens.

The key motivation behind this Special Issue on “Advances and Applications of Sustainable Nanotechnology in Agricultural Industrial Processes” is to collect information about the current knowledge and challenges that exist regarding the research of nanotechnology, so that innovative tools can be developed in order to improve the quality and yield of food, thus mitigating the current problems related to the excessive application of agrochemicals, soil deterioration and effects derived from climate change. The MDPI journal Processes and this Special Issue invite you to submit original research and review articles that provide an overview of the application of nanoparticles and their ability to improve growth and protect plants. 

Dr. Paola Fincheira
Dr. Gonzalo Tortella
Prof. Dr. Adalberto Benavides-Mendoza
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Keywords

  • plant growth and nutrition
  • protection
  • induced and acquired systemic resistance 
  • field and in vitro bioassays 
  • vegetables, fruits and cereals

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Research and Possible Agronomic Applications of C60(OH)24 Adducts with Heavy Metals for Crop Treatment
by Natalia A. Kulenova, Nikolay A. Charykov, Viktor A. Keskinov, Anastasiia A. Gur’eva, Valeriia P. German and Dmitry G. Letenko
Processes 2023, 11(12), 3354; https://doi.org/10.3390/pr11123354 - 02 Dec 2023
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This article describes the synthesis of fullerenol—C60(OH)24 adducts with some heavy metals— [...] Read more.
This article describes the synthesis of fullerenol—C60(OH)24 adducts with some heavy metals—C60(ONa)x(O2Me)(24x)/2;C60(ONa)x(O3Me)(24x)/3; Me=Co; Cu; Mn; Zn; Gd; Tb. The identification of adducts was carried out by the methods of: elemental analysis, infrared and electronic spectroscopy, complex thermal analysis, high-performance liquid chromatography and dynamic light scattering. The solubility of adducts in aqueous solutions in the ambient temperature range has been studied. The solubility was significant and ranged from a few tenths to 1 g/dm3. The use of these adducts as micronutrients for spring barley crops in the Republic of Kazakhstan is considered. When using these nanopreparations, a general increase in yield (tens, up to 80 rel.%), nutrient content and moisture content of seeds (4–5 rel. mass %), as well as the resistance of the latter to the effects of pathogenic microorganisms (percentage of healthy seeds growth up to 10 rel.%), was noted. Full article
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