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Sustainable Agriculture Reviews 20 Shivendu Ranjan Nandita Dasgupta Eric Lichtfouse E ditors Nanoscience in Food and Agriculture 1 Sustainable Agriculture Reviews Volume 20 Series editor Eric Lichtfouse Other Publications by Dr. Eric Lichtfouse Books Scientifi c Writing for Impact Factor Journals Nova Publishers 2013 Sustainable Agriculture Springer 2009 Sustainable Agriculture Volume 2 Springer 2011 Environmental Chemistry. Green Chemistry and Pollutants in Ecosystems Springer 2005 Rédiger pour être publié ! Conseils pratiques pour les scientifi ques Springer 2012, 2e édition. Journals and Series Agronomy for Sustainable Development w ww.springer.com/journal/13593 Sustainable Agriculture Reviews www.springer.com/series/8380 Environmental Chemistry Letters www.springer.com/journal/10311 Environmental Chemistry for a Sustainable World www.springer.com/journal/11480 Blog Agronomy blog http://www1.montpellier.inra.fr/agronomy-blog Magazine Publier La Science https://listes.inra.fr/sympa/d_read/veillecaps/ Sustainable agriculture is a rapidly growing fi eld aiming at producing food and energy in a sustainable way for humans and their children. Sustainable agriculture is a discipline that addresses current issues such as climate change, increasing food and fuel prices, poor-nation starvation, rich-nation obesity, water pollution, soil erosion, fertility loss, pest control, and biodiversity depletion. Novel, environmentally-friendly solutions are proposed based on integrated knowledge from sci- ences as diverse as agronomy, soil science, molecular biology, chemistry, toxicology, ecology, economy, and social sciences. Indeed, sustainable agriculture decipher mechanisms of processes that occur from the molecular level to the farming system to the global level at time scales ranging from seconds to cen- turies. For that, scientists use the system approach that involves studying components and interactions of a whole system to address scientifi c, economic and social issues. In that respect, sustainable agriculture is not a classical, narrow science. Instead of solving problems using the classical painkiller approach that treats only negative impacts, sustainable agriculture treats problem sources. Because most actual society issues are now intertwined, global, and fast-developing, sustainable agriculture will bring solutions to build a safer world. This book series gathers review articles that ana- lyze current agricultural issues and knowledge, then propose alternative solutions. It will therefore help all scientists, decision-makers, professors, farmers and politicians who wish to build a safe agriculture, energy and food system for future generations. More information about this series at h ttp://www.springer.com/series/8380 Shivendu Ranjan • Nandita Dasgupta Eric Lichtfouse Editors Nanoscience in Food and Agriculture 1 Editors Shivendu Ranjan Nandita Dasgupta Nano-food Research Group, Instrumental Nano-food Research Group, Instrumental and Food Analysis Laboratory, Industrial and Food Analysis Laboratory, Biotechnology Division, School of Industrial Biotechnology Division, BioSciences and Technology School of BioSciences and Technology Vellore Institute of Technology Vellore Institute of Technology Vellore , Tamil Nadu , India Vellore , Tamil Nadu , India Eric Lichtfouse INRA Dijon , France ISSN 2210-4410 ISSN 2210-4429 (electronic) Sustainable Agriculture Reviews ISBN 978-3-319-39302-5 ISBN 978-3-319-39303-2 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-39303-2 Library of Congress Control Number: 2016947716 © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016 T his work is subject to copyright. 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Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Printed on acid-free paper This Springer imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland We dedicate this book to our parents –The Editors There is plenty of room at the bottom –Richard Feynman Pref ace T his book is the fi rst of several volumes on Nanoscience and Food in Agriculture, which will be published in series Sustainable Agriculture Reviews. Nanotechnology is a fast-evolving discipline that already produces outstanding basic knowledge and industrial applications for the benefi t of society. Whereas the fi rst applications of nanotechnology have been developed mainly in material sciences, applications in agriculture and food sectors are still emerging. Due to a rapid population growth, there is a need to produce food and beverages in a more effi cient, safe and sustain- able way. Here nanotechnology is a promising way to improve crop production, water quality, nutrition, packaging, and food security. There are actually a few com- prehensive reviews and clear textbooks on nanotechnology in agriculture, water, and food. Therefore in this book we present ten chapters describing the synthesis and application of nanomaterials for health, food and agriculture. Applications to agriculture, food and water quality are symbolized in Fig. 1 . Defi nitions and an overall view of nanotechnology applications in agriculture, food, water and environment are described in the two fi rst chapters by Dasgupta Fig. 1 N anotechnology will allow to improve the quality of water and food. L eft: Roselette lake and Mont Blanc mountains, France (Copyright: G. Balvay/INRA 2015). Right: Ebly wheat rhu- barb salad (Copyright: P. Libert/INRA 2015) vii viii Preface Fig. 2 Major applications of nanotechnology in agriculture. Dasgupta et al. Chap. 1 et al. and Singh (Fig. 2 ). Health and environmental applications of nanotechnology are presented in Chaps. 3 , 4 , and 5 . Shukla and Iravani review green methods to synthesize metal nanoparticles and give applications to water purifi cation in Chap. 3. The removal of up to 95 % of contaminants by nanoparticles, nanotubes and nanostructured membranes is described by Naghdi et al. in Chap. 4 . Yoti et al. then review nanosensors for the detection of pathogenic bacteria in Chap. 5 . Those nano- sensors can be used as biodiagnostics to control food and water quality. Food appli- cations of nanoscience are presented in Chaps. 6 and 7 by Kuswandi and Sarkar et al. Kuswandi explain in Chap. 6 that nanomaterials can improve packaging qual- ity and that nanosensors can detect freshness and contaminants. The use of nanoparticles to protect ingredients such as vitamins, fl avours and antimicrobials is reviewed by Sarkar et al. in Chap. 7 . A gricultural applications of nanotechnology are given in the last three chapters by Pulimi and Subramanian, Chhipa and Joshi, and Shalaby and El-Ramady. Pulimi and Subramanian explain in Chap. 8 that nanoclays, nanozeolites and nanominerals can be used as plant nutrient carriers, and to improve water retention in soils. They also describe the used of nanoparticles to improve classical methods of pollutant Preface ix remediation such as phytoremediation and electrokinetic degradation. Chhipa and Joshi review the use of nanofertilisers, nanopesticides and nanosensors in agricul- ture in Chap. 9 . Nanosensors are particularly useful in precision agriculture because they detect pests locally in real-time, which allow to treat them fast with minimal side-effects. In Chap. 1 0 , Shalaby and El-Ramady reveal the benefi ts of zinc oxide and silicon nanofertilisers for plant growth. Thanks for reading Vellore , TN , India Shivendu Ranjan Nandita Dasgupta Dijon , France Eric Lichtfouse
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