Showing posts with label Dr. Suresh Kaushik. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dr. Suresh Kaushik. Show all posts

Monday, 28 March 2022

Nanopesticides for Agricultural Applications

 Recent Advances on Lignocellulosic-Based Nanopesticides for Agricultural Applications


This paper is reviewed by me. Please see the details by clicking the following link:


Name of Paper Reviewed


Sunday, 13 October 2019

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.



Tuesday, 13 November 2018

Wednesday, 7 June 2017

Genetic improvements of traits for enhancing NPK acquisition and utilization efficiency in plants

Chapter title: Genetic Improvements of traits for enhancing NPK Acquisition and Utilization Efficiency in Plants
Chapter number: 10
Book title:
Plant Macronutrient Use Efficiency: Molecular and Genomic Perspectives in Crop Plants

This book presents the latest understanding of molecular and genetic bases of macro-nutrient use efficiency to develop strategies for improvement of overall nutrient use efficiency and nutrient stress tolerance. Plant Nutrient Use Efficiency (NUE), represents a question of process optimization in response to the increasing fragility of the natural resource base and threats to food grain security across the globe. This book is the first to present information key to the further improvement of macro NUE, a prerequisite to reducing production costs, expanding crop acreage into non-competitive marginal lands with low nutrient resources, and preventing environmental contamination. Plant Macro-Nutrient Use Efficiency improves understanding of the complex mechanisms regulating macro NUE for developing modern varieties that are more resilient to nutrient stresses.
Identification of the potential novel genes responsible for NUE and nutrient stress tolerance in crop plants will contribute to understanding the molecular mechanisms of crop responses to nutrient stresses. This edited volume is an excellent, all-inclusive reference source of knowledge with both foundational and translational insights and is useful for those in all fields of plant science research.

Editors : Mohammad Anwar Hossain, Takehiro Kamiya, David J. Burrit, Lam-Son Phan Tran and Toru Fujiwara
Publisher: Academic Press, Elsevier
Running title: Genetic improvements for enhancing NPK use efficiency
Chapter author names and affiliations:
Suresh Kaushik, Division of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi – 110012, India

Setyowati Retno Djiwanti, Plant Protection Division, Indonesian Spice and Medicinal Crop Research Institute (ISMECRI), Tentara Pelajar Street No. 3, Bogor 16111, West Java, Indonesia