Biological Nanofertilizer for Horticultural Crops: A Diagrammatic Mini-Review

Document Type : Review

Authors

1 Soil and Water Dept., Kafrelsheikh Uni.

2 DE MÉK, Institute of Animal Science, Biotechnology and Nature Conservation, Department of Animal Husbandry, Nanofood Laboratory, Debrecen University, 4032 Debrecen, Hungary

3 soil and water Dept. faculty of agriculture

4 Soil and Water Dept., Faculty of Agriculture, Kafrelsheikh University, 33516 Kafr El-Sheikh, Egypt

5 Horticulture Dept., Faculty of Agriculture, Kafrelsheikh Uni., Kafr El-Sheikh, Egypt

6 Agricultural Microbiology, Soil, Water and Environment Research Institute, Giza, Egypt

7 Microbiology department, Soil, Water and Environment Research Institute, Agricultural Research Center.

8 Soil improvement.SWERI.AR.C.

9 Dean, College of Agricultural, Life, and Physical Sciences Agriculture Building, Room 200 Southern Illinois University 1205 Lincoln Drive Carbondale, IL 62901 USA

Abstract

Agriculture field is very important for the humanity, which supplies humans with all needs from food, fiber, feed for animals and energy. Production of seedlings is of great agricultural practice especially in the horticultural nurseries. Producing vigor and healthy seedlings in horticultural cops like banana and strawberry using biological nanofertilizers (bionanofertilizers) is presented in this mini-review. Due to their distinguished properties, bionanofertilizers have an increase concern in agriculture and in particular during the producing transplants or seedlings. Under using bionanofertilizers, many attributes of studied seedlings were promoted such as the plant antioxidants system, nutritional status, and quality parameters of seedlings. Bionanofertilizers have been shown obvious impacts in many horticultural crops besides many other crops during different growth periods such as copper, selenium, silicon, and zinc. The most distinguished impact of bionanofertilizers may include enhancing production of seedlings or plants under different stresses (biotic and abiotic) by improving plant many attributes like physiological, biochemical and molecular characters. This is a diagrammatic mini-review on the biological nanofertilizers and their potential for horticultural crop.

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