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.
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