Nanobiostimulants in Innovative Agriculture

This book discusses the development and application of crop microbiome as nanobiofertilizer, nanobiopesticide and nanobiostimulants to address the goal of climate-smart agriculture. Nanomaterials encapsulate beneficial crop microbiomes and delivers pesticidal or nutritive active ingredients in a controlled, targeted and synchronized manner. This offers new opportunities to increase nanobiofertilizer and nanobiostimulant efficacy and efficiency compared to their chemical counterparts. This book aims to guide the readers to discover, assess, and utilize beneficial microbiome and/or their metabolites for augmenting plant growth and development, biocontrol of pests, and bioremediation of contaminated agricultural soil. 

This book is a reference material for faculties, scientists, and research scholars working in the field of agronomy, agricultural biotechnology, and plant sciences

Prof. Riyaz Sayyed is currently working as a professor at the University of Nizwa, Oman. He has 21 years of teaching, and research experience  and has authored and co-authored over 377 research papers, 36 books and 85 book chapters in global publishers.  Prof. Sayyed is a Fellow of Royal Society of Biology, Indian Phytopathological Society etc. and a Member of American Chemical Society. He is a visiting scholar at INTI University, Malaysia, and the Academy of Sciences, Uzbekistan. He has been an invited speaker at many international conferences in the country and, and abroad.

Dr. Noshin Ilyas is Chairperson/ Associate professor at the Department of Botany, PMAS Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi, Pakistan. She has 16 years of teaching experience and has published more than 100 papers and edited four books. She is the president of the Pakistan Asian PGPR Society and a member of various professional societies. She has received two research awards from PMAS-Arid University, and 1st Prof. Dr. Abdul Hameed Gold Medal in applied and environmental microbiology from the Applied Zoological Society of Pakistan. 

Prof. Dilantha Fernando is a professor at the Department of Plant Science and Dean of Studies at the University of Manitoba. Dr. Fernando is an internationally renowned host-pathogen interaction researcher, specializing in the epidemiology and spread of the pathogen on canola and cereals. Dr. Fernando has published more than 200 peer-reviewed research articles and 17 book chapters. He has been a co-developer of 37 canola/HEAR cultivars, bringing prestige and royalty funds to the University of Manitoba, adding millions to the Canadian economy and grower profits.