Nanopesticide: Future Application of Nanomaterials in Plant Protection

Nanopesticide: Future Application of Nanomaterials in Plant Protection

Crop Pests and diseases, and post harvest pests have significant impact on agricultural yield loss  and farmers’ incomes. Farmers mostly use synthetic pesticides to manage pests to maximize crop yields; posing potensial risks for workers, consumers and the environments.  Nanopesticides based on metal and essential oils, agrochemical control release formulation hold promise as less toxic pesticide and excellent alternative to convensional pesticide in plant pest and disease control.  Nanoparticles and nanoemulsions of metals, nanoemulsion of essential oils, and matrixs of delivery agents/ carrier in nano pesticide formulations; have been synthesized and their effectiveness assessed against plant pest insect and disease pathogen; and other aspects in plant protection.  This review discuss the main research of nanomaterials that have been  applied and highlights nanoformulation  technologies to be considered for their continuing development of nanopesticides from point of view of  plant protection. 

The chapter has been published in  the book 'Plant Nanobionics: Volume 2, Approaches in Nanoparticles, Biosynthesis and Toxicity" edited by Dr. Ram Prasad and published by Springer Nature.

Nanopesticide for Plant Protection

Nanopesticides

Single-Particle Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry for Characterization of Engineered Nanoparticles

Single-Particle Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry for Characterization of Engineered Nanoparticles

With the rapid development of nanotechnology, consumer products containing metallic engineered nanoparticles (ENPs) are commonly available in the market. These particles subsequently are released into the environment, and uptake of these materials by human is very likely. Methods for detecting, quantifying, and characterizing these materials in complex matrices are critical for the eventual understanding of their implications to human health and environment. To assess their effect on the body, reliable and fast detection of these nanoparticles in very low amount becomes increasingly important. Single-particle ICP-MS has emerged (spICP-MS) as a useful tool for characterization of metal-containing nanoparticles. This technique is reliable and fast for counting and sizing particles at lowest concentrations while simultaneously distinguishing between dissolved and particulate analytes.

The chapter describing about this technique has been published in the book “Microbial Nanobionics” volume 2 Basic Research and Applications edited by  Dr. Ram Prasad.