Advances in Life Sciences
  • Year: 2016
  • Volume: 5
  • Issue: 1

Role of Nanotechnology in Agriculture

  • Author:
  • B. K. Rajkumar1,, Sharanabasappa B. Yeri2, R.P. Preeti1, J. S. Dapke3
  • Total Page Count: 7
  • Page Number: 22 to 28

1Main Cotton Research Station, Navsari Agriculture University, Surat-395 007

2AICRP, Agriculture Research Station, Kalaburagi, (Karnataka), 585 102

3Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, Navsari Agriculture University, Navsari-396 450

*email: bkrajsan11@gmail.com

Online published on 9 December, 2016.

Abstract

Nanotechnology has been accorded the status of massively growing area of science and celebrated research endeavours of the 21st century for exploiting the unique properties of atomic and molecular assemblage that are built at the nano-meter scale. The diversified applications that would be possible with the use of physical, chemical or biological entities at the nano-scale are enumerable. We shall understand a sub-section of nanotechnology application in the area of agriculture. Use of various technological advances andthe materialsthat are used at nano-scale toenhancethe agricultureproduction are reviewed under different section in this paper.

Keywords

Role of Nanotechnology, Agriculture