Enhanced edible plant production using nano-manganese and nano-iron fertilizers: Current status, detection methods and risk assessment
- Author(s)
- Aleksandra Szuplewska, Jacek Sikorski, Magdalena Matczuk, Lena Ruzik, Bernhard K. Keppler, Andrei R. Timerbaev, Maciej Jarosz
- Abstract
Background: Nanotechnology offers many benefits in the globally important field of food production and human nutrition, particularly by implementing agricultural nanoproducts. Of these, edible plant fertilizers enriched with nanosized forms of essential metals, Mn and Fe, are growing in importance with the advantages of enhanced action on plant roots. Scope and approach: This review focuses on the importance of tracking the bioaccumulation and biodistribution of these pertinent nanofertilizers. An emphasis is given to the critical analysis of the state-of-the-art analytical strategies to examine the Mn and Fe nanoparticles in edible plant systems as well as to shedding light on the vast gap in the methodologies dedicated to the speciation, in vitro simulation, and safety testing of these promising nanomaterials. Also provided are guidances for the food chemists and technologists on the lights and shadows of particular analytical approaches as a matter of authors’ expertise as analytical chemists. Key findings and conclusions: While the use of nanotechnology in agriculture seems to be growing increasingly, there is still a lack of analytical methodologies capable of investigating novel Mn- and Fe-based nanomaterials as potential fertilizers. Only the advent of reliable analytical tools in the field could bridge the gaps in our knowledge about processes in which those materials participate in the plant systems and their effects on crop production and quality of the produced food.
- Organisation(s)
- Department of Inorganic Chemistry
- External organisation(s)
- Warsaw University of Technology
- Journal
- Plant Physiology and Biochemistry
- Volume
- 199
- ISSN
- 0981-9428
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plaphy.2023.107745
- Publication date
- 06-2023
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 210006 Nanotechnology, 106034 Phytochemistry, 106031 Plant physiology
- Keywords
- ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Physiology, Genetics, Plant Science
- Sustainable Development Goals
- SDG 2 - Zero Hunger
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/6477e1b0-4f4a-4181-93e3-2b4923f9d565