scholarly journals Nanotechnology: Past, Present and Future Prospects in Crop Protection

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kallol Das ◽  
Pijush Kanti Jhan ◽  
Srijan Chandra Das ◽  
F.M. Aminuzzaman ◽  
Benjamin Yaw Ayim
Keyword(s):  
Disease Management ◽  
Plant Disease ◽  
Crop Protection ◽  
Life Sciences ◽  
Individual Chromosome ◽  
Future Prospects ◽  
Plant Pests ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Plant Sciences ◽  
Plant Disease Management

Nanotechnology is an advanced and evolving discipline in the field of science and technology with various applications in other fields such as the life sciences, and is increasingly important in the plant sciences as well. It is estimated that 20–40% of crops are lost each year due to plant pests and pathogens. The current plant disease management, which primarily relies on toxic pesticides that may be harmful to humans and the environment, has the benefit of utilizing nanotechnology. It has capabilities in determining the outbreak of an epidemic as well as diagnosing different types of diseases. It can also distinguish between similar microbes like bacteria, fungi, viruses, complex genomic portions, and how two versions of genes on an individual chromosome differ. This chapter will cover the plant disease management implementation of this technology.

scholarly journals Nanotechnology for Plant Disease Management

Agronomy ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (12) ◽  
pp. 285 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Worrall ◽  
Aflaq Hamid ◽  
Karishma Mody ◽  
Neena Mitter ◽  
Hanu Pappu
Keyword(s):  
Disease Management ◽  
Plant Disease ◽  
Field Trials ◽  
Water Soluble ◽  
Plant Pests ◽  
Agricultural Application ◽  
Agricultural Applications ◽  
Poorly Water Soluble ◽  
Plant Disease Management ◽  
Commercial Applications

Each year, 20%–40% of crops are lost due to plant pests and pathogens. Existing plant disease management relies predominantly on toxic pesticides that are potentially harmful to humans and the environment. Nanotechnology can offer advantages to pesticides, like reducing toxicity, improving the shelf-life, and increasing the solubility of poorly water-soluble pesticides, all of which could have positive environmental impacts. This review explores the two directions in which nanoparticles can be utilized for plant disease management: either as nanoparticles alone, acting as protectants; or as nanocarriers for insecticides, fungicides, herbicides, and RNA-interference molecules. Despite the several potential advantages associated with the use of nanoparticles, not many nanoparticle-based products have been commercialized for agricultural application. The scarcity of commercial applications could be explained by several factors, such as an insufficient number of field trials and underutilization of pest–crop host systems. In other industries, nanotechnology has progressed rapidly, and the only way to keep up with this advancement for agricultural applications is by understanding the fundamental questions of the research and addressing the scientific gaps to provide a rational and facilitate the development of commercial nanoproducts.

scholarly journals Plant and Fungal Genome Editing to Enhance Plant Disease Resistance Using the CRISPR/Cas9 System

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Narayan Chandra Paul ◽  
Sung-Won Park ◽  
Haifeng Liu ◽  
Sungyu Choi ◽  
Jihyeon Ma ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Disease Resistance ◽  
Disease Management ◽  
Genome Editing ◽  
Plant Disease Resistance ◽  
Crop Production ◽  
Plant Disease ◽  
Plant Pathogens ◽  
Crop Protection ◽  
Fungal Genome ◽  
Plant Disease Management

Crop production has been substantially reduced by devastating fungal and oomycete pathogens, and these pathogens continue to threaten global food security. Although chemical and cultural controls have been used for crop protection, these involve continuous costs and time and fungicide resistance among plant pathogens has been increasingly reported. The most efficient way to protect crops from plant pathogens is cultivation of disease-resistant cultivars. However, traditional breeding approaches are laborious and time intensive. Recently, the CRISPR/Cas9 system has been utilized to enhance disease resistance among different crops such as rice, cacao, wheat, tomato, and grape. This system allows for precise genome editing of various organisms via RNA-guided DNA endonuclease activity. Beyond genome editing in crops, editing the genomes of fungal and oomycete pathogens can also provide new strategies for plant disease management. This review focuses on the recent studies of plant disease resistance against fungal and oomycete pathogens using the CRISPR/Cas9 system. For long-term plant disease management, the targeting of multiple plant disease resistance mechanisms with CRISPR/Cas9 and insights gained by probing fungal and oomycete genomes with this system will be powerful approaches.

Development of carrier-free self-assembled nanoparticles based on fenhexamid and polyhexamethylene biguanide for sustainable plant disease management

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (6) ◽  
pp. 2531-2540
Author(s):  
Gang Tang ◽  
Yuyang Tian ◽  
Junfan Niu ◽  
Jingyue Tang ◽  
Jiale Yang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Disease Management ◽  
Plant Disease ◽  
Polyhexamethylene Biguanide ◽  
Adverse Impacts ◽  
Pesticide Formulations ◽  
Carrier Free ◽  
Self Assembled ◽  
Plant Disease Management

The utilization of nanotechnology for the design of pesticide formulations has enormous potential to enhance the efficiency of pesticides and reduce their adverse impacts on the environment

RNA interference: evolutions and applications in plant disease management

2013 ◽  
Vol 46 (12) ◽  
pp. 1430-1441 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Karthikeyan ◽  
M. Deivamani ◽  
V.G. Shobhana ◽  
M. Sudha ◽  
T. Anandhan
Keyword(s):  
Rna Interference ◽  
Disease Management ◽  
Plant Disease ◽  
Plant Disease Management

Potential use of glycerol- and/or spermidine-plasticized secalin films as leaf surface coatings for sustainable plant disease management

2021 ◽  
pp. 129461
Author(s):  
Zeinab Qazanfarzadeh ◽  
Seyedeh Fatemeh Mirpoor ◽  
Mahdi Kadivar ◽  
Hajar Shekarchizadeh ◽  
Rocco Di Girolamo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Disease Management ◽  
Plant Disease ◽  
Leaf Surface ◽  
Surface Coatings ◽  
Plant Disease Management ◽  
Potential Use
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