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ClearRecent Advances and Perspectives of Nanomaterials in Agricultural Management and Associated Environmental Risk: A Review
This review covers recent advances in using nanomaterials for agricultural applications, including nanopesticides, nanofertilizers, and nanosensors for crop management. Researchers found that these technologies can improve plant growth and stress tolerance while reducing the overall quantity of chemicals needed. However, the study also notes that the long-term environmental fate and potential ecological risks of agricultural nanomaterials still require thorough investigation.
The challenge of nanotechnology in the field of agricultural applications: Nanofertilizers as an emerging technology
This systematic review covers the development and applications of nanofertilizers — nano-scale nutrient delivery systems for agriculture — as an emerging and more efficient alternative to conventional fertilizers. Precision agriculture using nanotechnology could reduce the reliance on plastic-coated slow-release fertilizers that contribute microplastics to soil.
Nano-Enable Materials Promoting Sustainability and Resilience in Modern Agriculture
This review examines how nanomaterials are being developed to promote more sustainable agriculture, including smart delivery systems for fertilizers and pesticides that reduce waste and environmental contamination. Researchers found that nano-enabled formulations can improve crop productivity while minimizing the release of harmful chemicals into soil and water. The study highlights the potential of nanotechnology to help address both food security and environmental pollution challenges in modern farming.
Nanofarming: Promising Solutions for the Future of the Global Agricultural Industry
This review covers how nanotechnology is being applied to improve agriculture through nanofertilizers, nanopesticides, and nanosensors that can boost crop yields while reducing environmental impact. While not directly about microplastics, the research is relevant because nano-based agricultural solutions could reduce reliance on plastic-intensive farming practices like plastic mulch films. Smarter farming technology may help decrease the amount of plastic entering agricultural soils.
Employment of nanoparticles for improvement of plant growth and development
This review examined how nanoparticles can improve plant growth and development, finding that nanotechnology applications in agriculture — including nanoparticle-based nutrient delivery — offer potential benefits but require careful consideration of risks in contaminated soils.
Nanoparticles as catalysts of agricultural revolution: enhancing crop tolerance to abiotic stress: a review
This review looks at how nanoparticles can help crops withstand environmental stresses like drought, salt, and heavy metal contamination. While not directly about microplastics, the research is relevant because nanoparticles and microplastics share similar size ranges and behaviors in soil, and understanding how tiny particles interact with plants helps scientists assess both the risks and potential benefits of nanoscale materials in agriculture.
Multifunctional Roles and Ecological Implications of Nano-Enabled Technologies in Oryza sativa Production Systems: A Comprehensive Review
This review examined the use of nano-enabled technologies in rice farming, covering their roles in boosting plant resilience, nutrient uptake, and the efficiency of fertilizers and pesticides. Researchers identified nanoplastic pollution as an emerging concern within agricultural systems alongside more established issues like heavy metal stress. The study calls for standardized environmental risk assessments before these technologies can be widely adopted in food production.
Recent Advances in Nano-Enabled Seed Treatment Strategies for Sustainable Agriculture: Challenges, Risk Assessment, and Future Perspectives
Researchers reviewed how nano-sized agrochemicals (chemicals smaller than 100 nanometers) can improve seed germination and reduce the toxic doses needed in farming, while also raising safety concerns for people and ecosystems. The review calls for stronger regulations and risk assessments before these nano-based seed treatments are widely commercialized.
Potencial de los nanomateriales en la agricultura: retos y oportunidades
This review examines the potential of nanomaterials in agriculture, discussing how nanoscience and nanotechnology can improve practices from seed germination and crop cultivation through to harvest and storage, with a focus on sustainable applications. The authors highlight both opportunities and challenges of integrating nanomaterials into agricultural systems under the pressures of climate change and growing food demand.
Nanofertilizers and Stress Management: Emerging Opportunities for Climate-resilient Farming
This review examines advances in nanofertilizer technology for sustainable agriculture, covering macro-, micro-, bio-, and smart nanofertilizers with controlled-release capabilities. Researchers found that nanoscale nutrient delivery systems can improve crop resilience to environmental stresses while reducing fertilizer waste. The study discusses emerging opportunities for climate-resilient farming through precision nutrient management at the nanoscale.
Nanoparticles in Agriculture: Enhancing Crop Resilience and Productivity against Abiotic Stresses
This review examines how engineered nanoparticles can help crops withstand environmental stresses like drought, salinity, and heavy metal contamination. While not focused on microplastics directly, it discusses how nanotechnology interacts with similar biological pathways that microplastics disrupt in plants. The review also raises important concerns about the potential toxicity and environmental impact of adding more nanoparticles to agricultural systems.
Agro-Pollutants and their Nano-Remediation from Soil and Water: A Mini-Review
This mini-review examines nano-remediation technologies for removing agricultural pollutants including pesticides, heavy metals, and fertilizers from soil and water. Nanomaterials are also being explored as tools for detecting and removing microplastics from the environment, making this research relevant to plastic pollution management.
A Review on Crop Responses to Nanofertilizers for Mitigation of Multiple Environmental Stresses
This review examines how nanoscale fertilizers can help crops survive environmental stresses like drought, salt, and pollution by improving nutrient delivery at the cellular level. While focused on agricultural benefits, the research is relevant to microplastics because nanofertilizers may help plants cope with microplastic-contaminated soil. However, the authors caution that widespread use of nanoparticles in farming raises its own questions about potential effects on the environment and human health.
The potential contribution of nanocarbon to fostering sustainable agriculture for future generations
This paper is not about microplastics — it reviews how nanocarbon materials can be applied in agriculture to improve soil structure, enable controlled nutrient release, purify water, and monitor crop health, while noting safety concerns around their broader adoption.
Micro and nano-plastics on environmental health: a review on future thrust in agro-ecotoxicology management
This review examines the growing body of evidence on how microplastics and nanoplastics affect plant health, soil microbial communities, and agricultural productivity. The study highlights that plastic accumulation in agricultural soils can alter crop growth and yield while disrupting soil ecosystem dynamics, and calls for greater attention to agro-ecotoxicology management to address these emerging threats to food production.
A Critical Perspective on Nanoplastics in Soil and Crop Systems
This critical perspective examines nanoplastics as emerging soil contaminants, reviewing their physicochemical properties, fate in soil systems, interactions with other pollutants, and effects on soil biology and crop growth.
Biopolymer-based nanocarriers for sustained release of agrochemicals: A review on materials and social science perspectives for a sustainable future of agri- and horticulture
This review examines how biopolymer-based nanocarriers can deliver fertilizers and pesticides more efficiently in agriculture, reducing the need for excessive chemical applications. Unlike conventional plastic-based delivery systems, these biodegradable carriers do not generate persistent microplastic pollution in farmland. The study also considers the social and economic factors that influence whether these environmentally friendly alternatives can successfully compete with conventional approaches.
Microplastics and nanoplastics in agriculture—A potential source of soil and groundwater contamination?
Researchers reviewed how microplastics and nanoplastics (tiny plastic fragments) contaminate agricultural soils and can migrate through the soil into groundwater, potentially carrying pesticides and other chemicals with them. They conclude that current analytical tools are inadequate and that plastic fragmentation in soils is a poorly understood but serious threat to drinking water supplies.
Nanoparticles in Soil Remediation: Challenges and Opportunities
This review examines the use of nanoparticles for cleaning up contaminated soils, covering technologies like chemical degradation, photocatalysis, and combined approaches with bioremediation. Researchers found that while nanomaterials show promise for removing pollutants, their own potential environmental and health effects need careful evaluation. The study calls for developing better monitoring tools and multi-functional nanocomposites to advance the field of soil cleanup.
Advanced applications of sustainable and biological nano-polymers in agricultural production
This review examines how sustainable and biological nano-polymers can improve agricultural practices through controlled agrochemical release, soil enhancement, and gene editing, while addressing environmental concerns about nanomaterial accumulation.
Nanoplastics in the soil environment: Analytical methods, occurrence, fate and ecological implications
This review covered analytical methods, occurrence data, environmental fate, and ecotoxicological effects of nanoplastics in soils, finding that nanoplastics can alter soil chemistry, physical structure, and biota in ways that threaten both natural and agricultural ecosystem functions. The authors identify standardization of nanoplastic detection in soil as a critical research gap.
Eco-designing of nano-materials to enhance crop productivity and improve soil remediation
This review examines how eco-designed nanomaterials can enhance crop productivity and improve soil remediation, evaluating the dual role of nanomaterials as agricultural inputs and potential environmental contaminants.
Micro/nanoplastics: a potential threat to crops
This review examines micro- and nanoplastic contamination in agricultural soil and water, summarizing sources, adsorption onto microplastics, uptake pathways into crops, effects on plant growth and physiology, and current detection and removal approaches, while highlighting the limited data on nanoplastic transport in plants.
Comparative Study on the Use of Traditional, Conventional and Advanced Methodologies for Sustainable Agriculture – a Review
Not relevant to microplastics — this is a review comparing traditional, conventional, and nano-technology-based fertilisation methods in agriculture.