Elsevier Bio-Based Nanoemulsions for Agri-Food Applications (Nanobiotechnology for Plant Protection)

Recent agricultural, food, and pharmaceutical research focuses attention on the development of delivery systems that can encapsulate, protect, and deliver natural compounds. Nanoemulsions are recognized as the best delivery systems for natural-origin nutraceuticals and phytochemicals, having many agri-food applications. Bio-based Nano-emulsions for Agri-Food Applications provides information on food-grade nanoemulsions and their application in agriculture and the food industry. This book covers concepts, techniques, current advances, and challenges in the formulation of the application of emerging food grade nanoemulsions. Particular attention is placed on food-grade nanoemulsion production methods and components used, such as plant/microbial products, biosurfactants, cosurfactants, emulsifiers, ligand targets, and bioactive/functional ingredients. This is an important reference source for materials scientists, engineers and food scientists who are looking to understand how nanoemulsions are being used in the agri-food sector. Review Provides information on how nanoemulsions are used in the agri-food sector From the Back Cover <p>Recent agricultural, food, and pharmaceutical research focuses attention on the development of delivery systems that can encapsulate, protect, and deliver natural compounds of different frameworks and activity. Nano-emulsions are recognized as the best delivery systems for natural-origin nutraceuticals and phytochemicals, having many agri-food applications. These emerging nano-emulsions provide an innovative dimension for producing new generation agrochemicals, functional foods, food preservatives, etc.</p> <p><i>Bio-based Nano-emulsions for Agri-Food Applications </i>provides information on green and food-grade nanoemulsions and their application in agriculture and the food industry. The book covers concepts, techniques, current advances, and challenges in the formulation of the application of emerging green/food grade nanoemulsions in agriculture and food technology. In particular, green/food-grade nanoemulsion production methods, components used, such as plant/microbial products, biosurfactants, cosurfactants, emulsifiers, ligand targets, and bioactive/f</p> <p>unctional ingredients, sophisticated instruments and analytical methods, used for nanoemulsion characterization.This is an important reference source for materials scientists, engineers and food scientists who are looking to understand how nanoemulsions are being used in the agri-food sector.</p> About the Author Kamel Ahmed Abd-Elsalam is a 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. Kasi Murugan is Professor in the Department of Biotechnology, at Manonmaniam Sundaranar University Abishekapatti, Tirunelveli, India. His areas of research are aflatoxin, biofilm, nanomaterial biogenic synthesis, microbial diversity exploration, and volarization.