Dr. Azamal Husen, Full Professor of Biology at University of Gondar, Gondar, Ethiopia, has served there as Coordinator of MSc (biology) program and Head of the Department of Biology, and has a more than 20 year experience of teaching and research (in India and Ethiopia). He specializes in (i) molecular/biochemical/physiological strategies adopted by plant species for their sustenance under abiotic stress; (ii) nanomaterials and their applications in cutting-edge areas (iii) plant response to nanomaterials at molecular/biochemical/physiological levels; and (iv) clonal propagation of plants and its modulation by external factors. He has conducted research projects sponsored by the Indian Council of Forest Research Education (ICFRE); the World Bank; the Indian Council of Agriculture Research (ICAR) and the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC), at Forest Research Institute, Dehra Dun (India), and the Research & Community Service Core Process at University of Gondar, Ethiopia. He has produced more than 50 research papers, 20 review articles, 10 book chapters, 10 conference papers, and over a dozen of manuals and monographs. A member of five scientific organisations, Husen received four fellowships from India and a recognition award from University of Gondar, Ethiopia, for excellent teaching, research and community service. An active organizer of seminars/conferences and an efficient evaluator of various international research projects and book proposals as he is, Husen has been on the Editorial board and the panel of reviewers of several reputed international journals. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of American Journal of Plant Physiology.

Dr. Muhammad Iqbal, Professor of Botany, has served Jamia Hamdard (Deemed University), New Delhi (India) as Head of the Department of Botany, Dean of the Faculty of Science, Controller of admissions, and the Vice Chancellor. Earlier, he worked at Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh (India) and King Saud University, Riyadh (Saudi Arabia). Specializing in Developmental, Environmental and Medicinal Botany, he has produced about 400 publications, including 265 research papers in journals, 70 book chapters, 8 books, 52 popular articles, and several technical reports and book reviews, besides over 200 abstracts of conference presentations. He has guided research of 36 PhD, 4 MPhil and 6 Post-doctoral students. Under the International Scientists Exchange Program of the Indian National Science Academy, he was a Visiting Professor in universities of Poland and South Korea. He chaired technical sessions of conferences and delivered invited talks in educational institutions not only in India but also in Austria, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Hong Kong, Japan, Jordan, Malaysia, Oman, Poland, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Thailand and Turkey. A life member of 20 scientific organisations as he is, Iqbal has been on the editorial boards of 18 well-known research journals, on the executive of many scientific bodies, and on various panels of experts drawn by the Science & Technology Councils/Ministries of India, Croatia and Hungary. He was the Vice President of Indian Botanical Society (2003-04) and International Society of Environmental Botanists (2013-18), and the President of Academy of Environmental Biology (2006-09). He received 12 awards and 8 fellowships from Indian as well as foreign institutions. His personal profile has appeared in several biographical directories published from India, UK and USA.

DRAFT

Preface

1. Chemistry and biochemistry of nanomaterials

Mahmoud Nasrollahzadeh, S. Mohammad Sajadi, Zahra Isaabadi, Mohadeseh Sajjadi

2. Nanomaterials fabrication from plants

Priyanka Singh, Josua Markus, Yu-Jin Kim, Dabing Zhang, Deok Chun Yang

3. Natural product based-nanomaterials (ZnO, Ag and Au): fabrication, mechanisms and characterization for cutting-edge bio-applications

Myalowenkosi Sabela, Suvardhan Kanchi, Krishna Bisetty

4. Impacts of metal and metal-oxides nanoparticles on physiology and functioning of plants

Mukesh Kumar Kanwar, Xianyao Chu, Jie Zhou

Vinod Kumar Mishra, Azamal Husen, Syed Sohrab Sartaj

6. Biogenic fabrication of gold nanoparticles and their application

7. Phytomediated synthesis of cerium-oxide nanoparticles and their applications

Shakeel Ahmed, Annu and Saiqa Ikram

8. Plant-mediated green synthesis of zinc oxide nanoparticles and their application

9. Plant-mediated synthesis of copper oxide nanoparticles, their characterization and applications in cutting-edge areas

Archana Joshi Bachheti, R.K.Bachheti, Ashutosh Sharma, Azamal Husen

10. Andrographolide from Andrographis paniculata: From traditional to nano medicine for cancer therapy

Rabea Parveen, Bushra Parveen, Sayeed Ahmad

11. Impact of nanomaterials on plant physiology and functions

Rubbel Singla, Avnesh Kumari, Sudesh Kumar Yadav

12. Biochemical/Phytochemical changes in plants due to exposure to nanomaterials

Pasupuleti Visweswara Rao, T.N.V.K.V.Prasad

13. Non-enzymatic defense and the protection of plant against metallic nanoparticles toxicity

A.C. Durate, N.A. Anjum

14. Genetic exchange and production of secondary metabolites in plants exposed to different manufactured nanomaterials

Mahmood Rasool, Arif Malik, Sara Zahid, Fatima Zahid, Syed Sohrab Sartaj

15. Nanofertilizers and plant production

Syed Sohrab Sartaj, Ihsanullah Daur

16. Nanomaterials as nanofertilizers for plant growth improvement and protection

Md. Kamrul Hasan, Yongcai Lai, Wei Li, Jie Zhou

17. Nanoparticulate delivery of plant nutrients for sustained crop productivity and biofortification

T.N.V.K.V.Prasad, P. Visweswara Rao

18. Nanomaterials: a better tool for crop disease management

Rakesh Kumar

Index

List of Contributors:

Mahmoud Nasrollahzadeh, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Qom, Qom 37185-359, Iran

S. Mohammad Sajadi, Department of Petroleum Geoscience, Faculty of Science, Soran University, PO Box 624, Soran, Kurdistan Regional Government, Iraq

Zahra Isaabadi, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Qom, Qom, 37185-359, Iran

Mohadeseh Sajjadi ?

Priyanka Singh, Department of Oriental Medicinal Biotechnology, College of Life Sciences, Kyung Hee University, Korea

Josua Markus, Graduate School of Biotechnology, Kyung Hee University, Korea

Yu-Jin Kim, Department of Oriental Medicine Biotechnology, College of Life Science, Kyung Hee University, Yongin 446-701, Korea

Joint International Research Laboratory of Metabolic & Developmental Sciences, Shanghai Jiao Tong University-University of Adelaide Joint Centre for Agriculture and Health, State Key Laboratory of Hybrid Rice, School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

Dabing Zhang, Joint International Research Laboratory of Metabolic & Developmental Sciences, Shanghai Jiao Tong University-University of Adelaide Joint Centre for Agriculture and Health, State Key Laboratory of Hybrid Rice, School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

Deok Chun Yang, Department of Oriental Medicinal Biotechnology, College of Life Sciences, Kyung Hee University, Korea

Myalowenkosi Sabela, Department of Chemistry, Durban University of Technology, P.O. Box 1334, Durban 4000, South Africa

Suvardhan Kanchi, Department of Chemistry, Durban University of Technology, P.O. Box 1334, Durban 4000, South Africa

Krishna Bisetty, Department of Chemistry, Durban University of Technology, P.O. Box 1334, Durban 4000, South Africa

Mukesh Kumar Kanwar, Department of Environmental Sciences, Sri Guru Granth Sahib World University, Fatehgarh Sahib 140406, Punjab, India

Xianyao Chu,

Jie Zhou

Vinod Kumar Mishra,

Syed Sohrab Sartaj, Special Infectious Agent Unit, King Fahd Medical Research Center, King Abdulaziz University

R.K. Bachheti, Graphic Era University, Dehra Dun, India

Nazia Khanam, P. G. Department of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Berhampur-760002 Orissa, India

Shakeel Ahmed, Department of Chemistry, Jamia Millia Islamia (A Central University) New Delhi, India-110025

Annu, Department of Chemistry, Jamia Millia Islamia (A Central University) New Delhi, India-110025

Saiqa Ikram, Department of Chemistry, Jamia Millia Islamia (A Central University) New Delhi, India-110025

Archana Joshi Bachheti, Graphic Era University, Dehra Dun, India

Ashutosh Sharma, Department of Applied Sciences, Graphic Era University, Dehradun India

Rabea Parveen, Department of Pharmaceutics, Faculty of Pharmacy, Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi-110062

Bushra Parveen, Faculty of Pharmacy, Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi, India

Sayeed Ahmad, Department of Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry, Faculty of PharmacyHamdard UniversityNew DelhiIndia

Rubbel Singla, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology, Himachal Pradesh 176062, India

Avnesh Kumari, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology, Himachal Pradesh 176062, India

Sudesh Kumar Yadav, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi, India

Pasupuleti Visweswara Rao, Faculty of Agro-Based Industry, Universiti Malaysia Kelantan, Campus Jeli, Jeli, Kelantan, Malaysia

T.N.V.K.V.Prasad, Nanotechnology Laboratory, Institute of Frontier Technology, Regional Agricultural Research Station, Acharya N G Ranga Agricultural University, AP, India

A.C. Durate, CESAM-Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies & Department of Chemistry, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal

N.A. Anjum, CESAM-Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies & Department of Chemistry, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal

Mahmood Rasool, Center of Excellence in Genomic Medicine Research (CEGMR), King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Arif Malik, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, (IMBB), The University of Lahore, Lahore 54000, Pakistan

Sara Zahid, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, (IMBB), The University of Lahore, Lahore 54000, Pakistan

Fatima Zahid,

Ihsanullah Daur, Department of arid land agriculture, King Abdulaziz University Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Md. Kamrul Hasan,

Yongcai Lai, Heilongjiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Harbin, China

Wei Li, ?

Rakesh Kumar, National Environmental Engineering Research Institute, Mumbai, India