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ReviewFrontiers in microbiology2017

Nanotechnology in Sustainable Agriculture: Recent Developments, Challenges, and Perspectives.

Ram Prasad, Atanu Bhattacharyya, Quang D Nguyen

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Review in Frontiers in microbiology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 181 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
181citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it
42.9field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

181 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 1,475 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Ram PrasadAmity Institute of Microbial Technology, Amity UniversityNoida, India.
Atanu BhattacharyyaDepartment of Entomology, University of Agricultural Sciences, Gandhi Krishi Vigyan KendraBengaluru, India.
Quang D NguyenResearch Centre of Bioengineering and Process Engineering, Faculty of Food Science, Szent István UniversityBudapest, Hungary.
Institute of Microbial Technology · INMagyar Agrár- és Élettudományi Egyetem · HUUniversity of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad · IN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Nanotechnology monitors a leading agricultural controlling process, especially by its miniature dimension. Additionally, many potential benefits such as enhancement of food quality and safety, reduction of agricultural inputs, enrichment of absorbing nanoscale nutrients from the soil, etc. allow the application of nanotechnology to be resonant encumbrance. Agriculture, food, and natural resources are a part of those challenges like sustainability, susceptibility, human health, and healthy life. The ambition of nanomaterials in agriculture is to reduce the amount of spread chemicals, minimize nutrient losses in fertilization and increased yield through pest and nutrient management. Nanotechnology has the prospective to improve the agriculture and food industry with novel nanotools for the controlling of rapid disease diagnostic, enhancing the capacity of plants to absorb nutrients among others. The significant interests of using nanotechnology in agriculture includes specific applications like nanofertilizers and nanopesticides to trail products and nutrients levels to increase the productivity without decontamination of soils, waters, and protection against several insect pest and microbial diseases. Nanotechnology may act as sensors for monitoring soil quality of agricultural field and thus it maintain the health of agricultural plants. This review covers the current challenges of sustainability, food security and climate change that are exploring by the researchers in the area of nanotechnology in the improvement of agriculture.

Indexed as

nanoemulsionsnanoencapsulationnanofertilizernanopesticidesnanotechnologysustainable agriculture

Identifiers

PMID28676790
PMCPMC5476687
OpenAlexW2671169680

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