Agricultural and Environmental Nanotechnology

Section 1 An introduction to nanoagriculture, agronanobiotechnology and nanoremediation.- Chapter 1. Nanoagriculture: Advantages and drawbacks.- Chapter 2. Agronanobiotechnology: present and prospect.- Chapter 3. Nanoremediation.- Chapter 4. Cutting-edge technologies in agriculture without hampering sustainable development.- Section 2 Nanoagriculture.- Chapter 5. Controlled Delivery of Elements, Molecules, Genetic Material, or Organisms.- Chapter 6. Nanosensors for crop management.- Chapter 7. Nanotechnology for pest management.- Chapter 8. Nanotechnology in water and wastewater treatment.- Chapter 9. The contribution of the nanotechnology to the farmer wellbeing.- Section 3 Agronanobiotechnology.- Chapter 10. Magnetofection for plant breeding.- Chapter 11. Nano and OMICs technologies.- Chapter 12. Interactions between nanomaterials and plant-microbe partnership.- Chapter 13. Nanobiological pest control.- Section 4 Nanoremediation.- Chapter 14 Nanoremediation of heavy metals in agricultural soils.- Chapter 15 Nanoremediation of organic pollutants.- Chapter 16 Phytobial remediation.- Chapter 17 Nanobioremediation.- Section 5 Ecological impacts.- Chapter 18 Nanomaterials in the human food chain.- Chapter 19 Nanotechnological achievements and the environmental degradation.- Chapter 20 Accumulation of engineered nanomaterials in soil, water and air.- Chapter 21 Collateral effects of nanopollution on human and environmental health.

Fernández-Luqueño FabiánCenter for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute (Cinvestav), Mexico.
Jayanta Kumar PatraResearch Institute of Biotechnology & Medical Converged Science, Dongguk University, Republic of Korea