Elsevier Agri-Waste and Microbes for Production of Sustainable Nanomaterials (Nanobiotechnology for Plant Protection)

Agri-Waste and Microbes for Production of Sustainable Nanomaterials assesses the most recent trends used to produce bionanomaterials from agricultural waste and microorganisms. The book covers the green synthesis of various nanomaterials using microorganisms and agricultural waste, including the synthesis and characterization of green nanomaterials, the production of nanomaterials from agri-waste, including metallic, copper, silica, cellulose, nanopolymers and nano/micro plastics, and biological methods such as agricultural and microbial synthesis of metallic/metal oxide, magnetic, silver, copper, nanomaterials and nanonutrients. This is an important reference source for plant scientists, materials scientists and environmental scientists who want to understand this new generation of sustainable nanomaterials. The synthesis of nanocellulose materials from agri-wastes is an emerging alternative for waste treatment methods, developing new biosensors and antimicrobial agents. Silicon nanoparticles are an additional ingredient for the improvement of crop yields. With recent advances in nanomaterials synthesis performance and the discovery of their biomedical, environmental and agricultural applications, it is hoped that the implementation of these methods will be used at large-scale for industrial applications in different sectors. Review Explores how agri-waste is being used to create a new generation of eco-friendly nanomaterials About the Author Dr Kamel Ahmed Abd-Elsalam is a Research Professor, specialising in molecular plant pathologist in the Agricultural Research Center at the Plant Pathology Research Institute, Egypt. His areas of research are plant pathogenic fungi, using a polyphasic approach based on multilocus phylogeny (gene-barcoding) and its correlation with polyphasic characters. His current research interests include developing, improving and deploying plant biosecurity diagnostic platforms and response tools, understanding and exploiting pathogen genomes and developing new nanotechnology-based platforms and materials. P. Rajiv is a Doctor of Philosophy at the Department of Biotechnology, Karpagam Academy of Higher Education, India. His research interests are environmental biotechnology, nanotechnology. biofertilizer technology, microbiology and food technology, organic farming, and crop improvement. S. Rajeshkumar is an Associate Professor at the Department of Pharmacology at the Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences, India. His research interests are green synthesis of silver, gold, zinc oxide, cadmium sulfide, zinc sulfide, titanium di oxide, copper sulfide, copper oxide, chitosan and silica nanoparticles and polymer coated metal nanocomposites. He is also researching applications of nanoparticles and nanocomposites on agricultural and biomedical applications (antimicrobial, anticancer, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, antidiabetic etc.)