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Plant Responses to Nanomaterials - Recent Interventions, and Physiological and Biochemical Responses (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
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Plant Responses to Nanomaterials - Recent Interventions, and Physiological and Biochemical Responses (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Series: Nanotechnology in the Life Sciences
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The population of the world continues to increase at an alarming
rate. The trouble linked with overpopulation ranges from food and
water scarcity to inadequacy of space for organisms. Overpopulation
is also linked with several other demographic hazards, for
instance, population blooming will not only result in exhaustion of
natural repositories, but it will also induce intense pressure on
the world economy. Today nanotechnology is often discussed as a key
discipline of research but it has positive and negative aspects.
Also, due to industrialization and ever-increasing population,
nano-pollution has been an emerging topic among scientists for
investigation and debate. Nanotechnology measures any substance on
a macromolecular scale, molecular scale, and even atomic scale.
More importantly, nanotechnology deals with the manipulation and
control of any matter at the dimension of a single nanometer.
Nanotechnology and nanoparticles (NPs) play important roles in
sustainable development and environmental challenges as well. NPs
possess both harmful and beneficial effects on the environment and
its harboring components, such as microbes, plants, and humans.
There are many beneficial impacts exerted by nanoparticles,
however, including their role in the management of waste water and
soil treatment, cosmetics, food packaging, agriculture,
biomedicines, pharmaceuticals, renewable energies, and
environmental remedies. Conversely, NPs also show some toxic
effects on microbes, plants, as well as human beings. It has been
reported that use of nanotechnological products leads to the more
accumulation of NPs in soil and aquatic ecosystems, which may be
detrimental for living organisms. Further, toxic effects of NPs on
microbes, invertebrates, and aquatic organisms including algae, has
been measured. Scientists have also reported on the negative impact
of NPs on plants by discussing the delivery of NPs in plants.
Additionally, scientists have also showed that NPs interact with
plant cells, which results in alterations in growth, biological
function, gene expression, and development. Thus, there has been
much investigated and reported on NPs and plant interactions in the
last decade. This book discusses the most recent work on NPs and
plant interaction, which should be useful for scientists working in
nanotechnology across a wide variety of disciplines.
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