Nanoscience in Food and Agriculture 2

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Intellectual Property Rights for Nanotechnology in Agriculture

   • Pritom Chowdhury, Madhurjya Gogoi, Sagarika Das, Afruza Zaman, Pranita Hazarika, Sangeeta Borchetia et al.

   Pages 1-25

3. Nanobiotechnology Methods to Incorporate Bioactive Compounds in Food Packaging

   • Adriano Brandelli, Luis Fernando Wentz Brum, João Henrique Zimnoch dos Santos

   Pages 27-58

4. Nanotechnological Applications in Food Packaging, Sensors and Bioactive Delivery Systems

   • Manashi Das Purkayastha, Ajay Kumar Manhar

   Pages 59-128

5. Nanoencapsulation of Bioactive Compounds for Nutraceutical Food

   • Pooja J. Rao, Madhav M. Naidu

   Pages 129-156

6. Biofortification of Food with Minerals and Vitamins Encapsulated in Silica

   • Sneha Singh, Nikita Rathi, Ashwini Angal, Prabhat Parida, Debabrata Rautaray

   Pages 157-206

7. Nanomaterials for Monitoring and Remediation of Water Pollution

   • Xing-yan Xue, Rong Cheng, Lei Shi, Zhong Ma, Xiang Zheng

   Pages 207-233

8. Phytochemically Functionalized Silver and Gold Nanoparticles to Treat Microbes, Viruses and Cancer

   • Brajesh Kumar, Kumari Smita

   Pages 235-252

9. Nanotechnology for the Detection and Diagnosis of Plant Pathogens

   • Prem Lal Kashyap, Pallavi Rai, Shikha Sharma, Hillol Chakdar, Sudheer Kumar, K. Pandiyan et al.

   Pages 253-276

10. Nanoparticle Toxicity in Water, Soil, Microbes, Plant and Animals

    • Naureen S. Khan, Ashwini K. Dixit, Rajendra Mehta

    Pages 277-309

11. Nanoparticles in Water, Soils and Agriculture

    • El-Sayed Belal, Hassan El-Ramady

    Pages 311-358

12. Back Matter

    Pages 359-373

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This book is the second volume on this topic within the series.  With unique properties, nanomaterials are rapidly finding novel applications in many fields such as food, medicine, agriculture and pollution.  Such applications include to treat cancer, nanosensors to detect food contamination, nanomaterials for food packaging, nanoencapsulation to preserve nutraceuticals, and nanofertilisers for advanced agriculture.  After an introductory chapter on property rights of nanomaterials, readers will discover the applications of nanotechnology in food, health, environment, ecotoxicology and agriculture.

• Nanotechnology
• Food
• Agriculture
• Intellectual Property Rights
• Nanotoxicology
• Health

• Nano-food Research Group, Instrumental and Food Analysis Laboratory, Industrial Biotechnology Division, School of BioSciences and Technology, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, India

  Shivendu Ranjan, Nandita Dasgupta

• INRA , Dijon, France

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