Nanoscience in Food and Agriculture 5

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Research Trends and Patents in Nano-food and Agriculture

   • Vinod Kumar Yata, Bhupesh Chandra Tiwari, Irfan Ahmad

   Pages 1-20

3. Politics of Nanotechnologies in Food and Agriculture

   • Valeria Sodano

   Pages 21-40

4. Nanosensors for Food and Agriculture

   • Anup K. Srivastava, Atul Dev, Surajit Karmakar

   Pages 41-79

5. Nanoemulsions for Nutrient Delivery in Food

   • DH Lohith Kumar, Preetam Sarkar

   Pages 81-121

6. Nanocarriers for Resveratrol Delivery

   • Divya Arora, Sundeep Jaglan

   Pages 123-138

7. Potential of Milk Proteins as Nanoencapsulation Materials in Food Industry

   • Amrita Poonia

   Pages 139-168

8. Uptake and Toxicity of Nanomaterials in Plants

   • Atul Dev, Anup K. Srivastava, Surajit Karmakar

   Pages 169-204

9. Nanomaterial Impact, Toxicity and Regulation in Agriculture, Food and Environment

   • Anubhav Kaphle, Navya PN, Akhela Umapathi, Maulick Chopra, Hemant Kumar Daima

   Pages 205-242

10. Nanomaterial Toxicity in Microbes, Plants and Animals

    • Babita Kaundal, Swayamprava Dalai, Subhasree Roy Choudhury

    Pages 243-266

11. Nanofertilizers for Sustainable Soil Management

    • Santosh Kumar Sanivada, Venkata Smitha Pandurangi, Murali Mohan Challa

    Pages 267-307

12. Impact of Nanomaterials on the Aquatic Food Chain

    • Govind Sharan Gupta, Rishi Shanker, Alok Dhawan, Ashutosh Kumar

    Pages 309-333

13. Nanoremediation for Sustainable Crop Production

    • Hassan El-Ramady, Tarek Alshaal, Mohamed Abowaly, Neama Abdalla, Hussein S. Taha, Abdullah H. Al-Saeedi et al.

    Pages 335-363

14. Back Matter

    Pages 365-366

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This book presents comprehensive reviews on the principles, design and applications of nanomaterials in the food and agriculture sectors. This book is the fifth of several volumes on Nanoscience in Food and Agriculture, published in the series Sustainable Agriculture Reviews.

• Nanoemulsions
• Nanocarriers
• Milk proteins
• Nanotechnologies
• Nanosensors
• Nanofertilizers
• Crop production

• School of Biosciences and Technology, VIT University, Vellore, India

  Shivendu Ranjan, Nandita Dasgupta

• Europole Mediterraneen de l’Arbois, CEREGE INRA, Aix en Provence Cedex 04, France

  Eric Lichtfouse

Shivendu Ranjan

Shivendu Ranjan is currently working as DBT-Research Fellow, Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology, Govt of India at VIT University, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India. He is also serving for a non government organization as an Honorary-Director, Research Wing, Veer Kunwar Singh Memorial Trust, Chapra, Bihar, India. He is the Founder-Director at Xpert Arena Technological Services Pvt. Ltd., India (www.xpertarena.com); this company is dedicated to serve in online and offline sectors with a vision to simplify the education. He has also founded and drafted the concept for first edition of “VIT Bio Summit” in 2012 and the same has been continued till date by the university.

His area of research is multidisciplinary which are as but not limited to: Nano-food technology, Nano-agri technology, Nanobiotechnology, Nano-toxicology, Natural products technology, Natural products chemistry, Bio-business, Food chemistry and Food Engineering. He has published many scientific articles in international peer reviewed journals and also serving as editorial board member and referee for reputed international peer reviewed journals. He has bagged several awards from different organizations e.g. Best poster award, achiever award, research award, young researcher award etc.

Nandita Dasgupta
Nandita Dasgupta is currently serving as Research Associate at VIT University, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India. She has exposure of research institutes and industries including CSIR-Central Food Technological Research Institute, Mysore, India and Uttar Pradesh Drugs and Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd., Lucknow, India. Her areas of interest include toxicological analysis, natural products technology, nanobiotechnology and agri-food technology.



She has published many scientific articles in international peer reviewed journals and also serving as editorial board member and referee for reputed international peer reviewed journals. She has received Elsevier Certificate for “Outstanding Contribution” in Reviewing from Elsevier, The Netherlands. She has also been nominated for Elsevier advisory panel for Elsevier, The Netherlands. She was the Guest Editor in Journal of Chemistry for the special issue entitled “Food Nanotechnology Opportunities and Challenges”. She has received several awards from different organizations e.g. Best poster award, young researcher award, Special achiever award, research award, etc.



Eric Lichtfouse

Eric Lichtfouse, is a soil scientist at the French National Institute for Agricultural Research  (INRA). He has invented the 13C-dating method allowing to measure the dynamics of soil organic molecules, thus opening the field of  molecular-level investigations of soil carbon sequestration. Chief Editor of the awardedjournal Agronomy for Sustainable Development, he has raised the journal rank from 29/53 in 2003, with an impact factor of 0.56, to 2/81 in 2014, with an impact factor of 3.99, in the Agronomy category. He is also Chief Editor and founder of the journal Environmental Chemistry Letters and the book series Sustainable Agriculture Reviews. He is lecturing scientific writing and communication in universities worldwide. His publication assistance service at the INRA has founded the french-english newsletter Publier La Science. He has published the book Scientific Writing for Impact Factor Journal. This textbook describes in particular the micro-article, a new tool to identify the novelty of experimental results. Further details are available on Slideshare, LinkedIn, ResearchGate, ResearcherID and Orcid.

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