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Nanomaterials for Enhanced Plant-Based Food Production

  • 1st Edition - July 14, 2025
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Huseyin Tombuloglu, Guzin Tombuloglu, Khalid Rehman Hakeem, Faheem Shehzad Baloch, Mohammad Azam Ansari
  • Language: English

Nanomaterials for Enhanced Plant-Based Food Production a new release in the Nanomaterial-Plant Interactions series, presents up-to-date insights on the use of nano-enabled agr… Read more

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Description

Nanomaterials for Enhanced Plant-Based Food Production a new release in the Nanomaterial-Plant Interactions series, presents up-to-date insights on the use of nano-enabled agricultural tools from nanofertilizers to nanosensors, including how to balance safety and environmental impact concerns to ensure optimal utilization. The book provides a range of solution options and guides the reader in identifying the most appropriate choice. With state-of-the-art, broad coverage of recent and potential applications, this book covers the most recent advances in the application of nanotechnology toward fulfilling the world's food demands for present and future generations.

Key features

  • Presents the advantages and challenges of utilizing nanomaterials for plant health improvement
  • Includes coverage of environmental impact concerns
  • Highlights the latest advances and future prospects for improving crop yield for improved food security

Readership

Researchers working on plant protection products, agricultural sciences, agricultural companies, agricultural regulators, and students of agricultural science and engineering

Table of contents

1. Nano discovery and its potential benefits for plant systems on earth

2. World food hunger in 2050 and nano solutions: probability and prospects based on plant based food

3. Nanomaterial’s towards seed science and technology: an effective way to increase benefits

4. Soil nutrient deficiency and nano solutions for plant productivity

5. Nutrient deficiency in plants and Nano biotechnological interventions

6. Plant diseases management through nano applications

7. Technique based Nano synthesis impacts on crop plants: A comparative overview

8. Role of agro nano chemicals in sustainable agriculture: effective way towards food safety and applications

9. Impact of silica nano forms on the health and yield of crops

10. Nanoparticles for plant-soil health management: effective solutions of multiple problems

11. Nano-drug delivery in plants: Why, when and How?

12. Nano-solutions and crop yield improvement

13. Control release of nanofertilizer against stress in plants: solutions threats and opportunities

14. Nanosensors are the solutions of future agriculture. A critical discussion

15. Nanotechnology and artificial intelligence for sustainable and precision agriculture

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: July 14, 2025
  • Language: English

About the editors

HT

Huseyin Tombuloglu

Huseyin Tombuloglu, PhD, is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Research and Medical Consultation (IRMC) of Imam Abdulrahman bin Faisal University, Dammam, Saudi Arabia. He received his BSc degree in Molecular Biology and Genetics, an MS degree in Biology and a PhD degree in Biotechnology. He has more than 15 years of teaching and research experience in Genetics, Molecular Biology, Plant Genomics, and Biotechnology, as well as Bioinformatics. His current research focuses on nanoparticle-plant interaction. He has published more than 60 internationally indexed articles. Among those, approximately 20 recent articles are related to nanoparticle and plant interactions at molecular and physiological levels. He has also edited two books published by a global publisher.

Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, Department of Genetics, Institute for Research and Medical Consultations (IRMC), University of Dammam, Saudi Arabia

GT

Guzin Tombuloglu

Dr. Guzin Tombuloglu (PhD) received her MS degree (Biology) in 2008 and PhD degree (Biotechnology) in 2014. She has experience in transcriptome sequencing, genetics, molecular biology and genomics. During her PhD, she studied transcriptomics identification of boron tolerance mechanism in barley. She has experienced several projects on abiotic stress, plant stress responses, boron toxicity, transcriptomics, and nanoparticle-plant interaction on molecular level. She has given several courses on teaching Genetics, Molecular Biology, and Biotechnology education for more than 15 years. She also worked as a Chairman in Pathology Laboratory Techniques Programme and Assistant Manager at Vocational School of Medical Sciences at the university level. She is the co-editor of two international books published by Springer.
Affiliations and expertise
Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Saudi Arabia

KH

Khalid Rehman Hakeem

Dr. Hakeem is a Professor at King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and Head of the Plant Biotechnology Research Unit at the Princess Dr. Najlaa Bint Saud Al Saud Center for Distinguished Research in Biotechnology. His academic journey includes roles as Assistant Professor at the University of Kashmir and research appointments in Malaysia. He holds a Ph.D. in Botany from Jamia Hamdard, India, with expertise in plant eco-physiology, molecular biology, biotechnology, and medicinal plant research. He has authored numerous books, journal articles, and book chapters, and serves on editorial boards for leading publishers. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology and affiliated with international scientific societies. His work focuses on advancing plant science through global collaborations and research on eco-physiological and molecular processes.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Makkah Province, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

FB

Faheem Shehzad Baloch

Faheem Shehzad Baloch is a professor of plant genetics at Mersin University, Mersin, Türkiye. He received his PhD in 2012 from the Faculty of Agriculture, Çukurova University, Adana, Türkiye, with a dissertation on QTL mapping in wheat, and was promoted to associate professor at Bolu Abant İzzet Baysal University in 2018. He has led and participated in numerous projects funded by national and international organizations and has completed international training in plant molecular genetics, including at ICARDA (Syria), the University of Copenhagen (Denmark), and the University of Minnesota (United States). A prolific and widely cited author, he has published extensively in Web of Science-indexed journals and has co-edited books and contributed numerous book chapters on molecular genetics in plant species. He serves on the editorial boards of several journals, including the Turkish Journal of Agriculture and Forestry, BMC Genomic Data, Agronomy Journal, Biotechnology and Biotechnological Equipment, BMC Plant Biology, and PLOS ONE, and has acted as a guest editor for Plants and Molecular Biology Reports and as a reviewer for many international journals.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Science, Mersin University, Mersin, Türkiye

MA

Mohammad Azam Ansari

Dr. Mohammad Azam Ansari is currently working as Associate Professor at the Institute for Research & Medical Consultation, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Saudi Arabia. His research interest is in green synthesis of different kinds of metal and metal oxides nanomaterials by using various part of the plants, and their interaction with plants, microbes and the environment. He is also working on the application of nanotechnology in food safety and security and removal of toxic pollutants from foods and environment. He has published in journals of repute including Science of The Total Environment, Plants, Chemosphere, Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B: Biology, Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology, Planta Medica, Saudi Journal Of Biological Sciences, Journal of Fungi. He has served as referee for a number of international journals, including Applied Microbiology, Biomolecules, Journal of Nanostructure, Advances in Natural Sciences: Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, Institute for Research & Medical Consultation, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Saudi Arabia

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