Overview
- Discusses various problems in food, agriculture and environmental sectors
- Describes using nanoparticles for safe and nutritional food production, protecting crops from pests, increasing nutritional value and providing solutions for various environmental issues
- Presents sustainable solutions with the application of nanotechnology in food, agriculture and the environment fields
Part of the book series: Nanotechnology in the Life Sciences (NALIS)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book has clear and simple illustrations, tables and case studies to understand the content even by non-experts. This book especially deals with the nanotechnology for controlling plant pathogens, food packaging and preservation, agricultural productivity, waste water treatment and bioenergy production. Hence, this book canbe adopted and used by many researchers and academicians in the fields of food, agriculture, environment and nanotechnology for catering the needs of sustainable future. The salient features of this book are
• Describes nanotechnology as an interdisciplinary and emerging field in life sciences
• Useful for researchers in the cutting edge life science related fields of nanoscience, nanobiology and nanotechnology
• Deal with various problems in food, agriculture and environmental sector for sustainable solutions through the application of nanotechnology
• Supported with illustrations in color, tables and case studies (wherever applicable), and
• Contributed and well written by nanotechnology experts from across various disciplines
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Jeyabalan Sangeetha is Assistant Professor in Central University of Kerala at Kasaragod, Kerala, India. She earned her BSc in Microbiology and PhD in Environmental Science from Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India. She holds an MSc in Environmental Science from Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India. She is the recipient of Tamil Nadu Government Scholarship and Rajiv Gandhi National Fellowship of University Grants Commission, Government of India for her doctoral studies. She served as Dr. D.S. Kothari Postdoctoral Fellow and UGC Postdoctoral Fellow at Karnatak University, Dharwad, South India during 2012-2016 with funding from University Grants Commission, Government of India, New Delhi. Her research interests are in the fields of Environmental Toxicology, Environmental Microbiology, Environmental Biotechnology and Environmental Nanotechnology.
Ram Prasad is associated with Amity Institute of Microbial Technology, Amity University, Uttar Pradesh, India, since 2005. His research interest includes plant-microbe interactions, sustainable agriculture and microbial nanobiotechnology. Dr. Prasad has more than hundred publications to his credit, including research papers, review articles and book chapters, and five patents issued or pending and edited or authored several books. Dr. Prasad has 12 years of teaching experience, and he has been awarded the Young Scientist Award (2007) and Prof. J.S. Datta Munshi Gold Medal (2009) by the International Society for Ecological Communications; FSAB fellowship (2010) by the Society for Applied Biotechnology; the American Cancer Society UICC International Fellowship for Beginning Investigators, USA (2014); Outstanding Scientist Award (2015) in the field of microbiology by Venus International Foundation; BRICPL Science Investigator Award (ICAABT-2017); and Research Excellence Award (2018). Previously, Dr. Prasad served as visiting assistant professor at Whiting School of Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, USA, and presently, working as research associate professor at School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Nanotechnology for Food, Agriculture, and Environment
Editors: Devarajan Thangadurai, Jeyabalan Sangeetha, Ram Prasad
Series Title: Nanotechnology in the Life Sciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31938-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-31937-3Published: 12 February 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-31940-3Published: 26 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-31938-0Published: 11 February 2020
Series ISSN: 2523-8027
Series E-ISSN: 2523-8035
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 405
Number of Illustrations: 30 b/w illustrations, 44 illustrations in colour
Topics: Agriculture, Plant Pathology, Nanotechnology, Food Microbiology, Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution