Silicon Advances for Sustainable Agriculture and Human Health : Increased Nutrition and Disease Prevention / edited by Renato de Mello Prado, Hassan Etesami, Anoop Kumar Srivastava.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mello Prado, Renato de, editor.

Etesami, Hassan, editor.

Srivastava, Anoop Kumar, editor.

Series:

Sustainable Plant Nutrition in a Changing World, 2662-2408

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Agricultural biotechnology.

Agriculture.

Nutrition.

Public health.

Agricultural Biotechnology.

Public Health.

Local Subjects:

Agricultural Biotechnology.

Agriculture.

Nutrition.

Public Health.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (463 pages)

Edition:

1st ed. 2024.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Springer, 2024.

Summary:

This book addresses the most innovative topics on silicon to ensure sustainability in agriculture, including advances in nanotechnology and the impact on human health. It provides innovative information on the mineral nutrition of plants with a focus on the beneficial element silicon that has attracted the attention and interest of researchers. This is happening because silicon is the only element in plant nutrition that is capable of mitigating the greatest number of stressful events during plant cultivation. Faced with climate change associated with disease pressure due to the use of transgenic cultivars that decreases genetic variability and increases the occurrence of stress in crops. Associated with this, there is a need to reduce the use of chemical pesticides in crops to favor agro-environmental sustainability and thus increases the need for the use of silicon in agriculture. This is important because the main goal of plant mineral nutrition is to meet the demand of the plant and consequently of man and his nutritional requirements, but there is a lack of work to integrate the benefits of Si in plants and consequently its reflections on human health. The information in this work will drive further research to expand knowledge and the benefits of Si in sustainable agriculture and human health, and therefore, the target audience would be researchers, professors, students from universities and research institutes, as well as company technicians.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Challenges of plant nutrition in the face of climate change

Chapter 2 Silicon: the only element in plant nutrition with a mitigating effect on multiple stresses

Chapter 3 Silicon and nano-silicon in water use efficiency

Chapter 4 Silicon and nano-silicon on the activity of soil microorganisms to release nutrients and plant tolerance to stress

Chapter 5 Silicon in pest control

Chapter 6 Silicon in soil C sequestration in phytoliths decreases CO2 emission

Chapter 7 Silicon and nano-silicon on C:N:P stoichiometry and nutrient use efficiency

Chapter 8 Silicon stimulates flowering and yield quality

Chapter 9 Importance of silicon in plant nanonutrition

Chapter 10 Overview of nano-silicon in plants: absorption, translocation and phytotoxicity

Chapter 11 Innovations on silicon transmembrane transporters in plants

Chapter 12 Absorption and xylem transport of nano-silicon in plants

Chapter 13 Nano-silicon for sustainable agriculture: improvements in soil health

Chapter 14 Potential of non-biogenic nano-silicon from sand for sustainable agriculture

Chapter 15 New sources of nano-silicon from biogenic silica for sustainable agriculture

Chapter 16 Nano-silicon from rice husks for sustainable crop protection

Chapter 17 Nano-silicon in agriculture: effectiveness and concerns

Chapter 18 Overview of silicon in plant and human biology

Chapter 19 Biogenic silica in the treatment of diabetes disease: study in mice

Chapter 20 Optimized plant nutrition for precision biofortification to meet nutrition custom human

Chapter 21 Sources and bioavailability of silicon for adequate human nutrition

Chapter 22 Degradability and clearance of nanosilicon in humans and the effects on health

Chapter 23 Importance of silicon bioavailability in bone formation using birds as a model

Chapter 24 Use of silicon in animal diets reduces digestion of saturated fat and may decrease chronic disease

Chapter 25 Biological and therapeutic effects of orthosilicic acid: new perspectives for therapy

Chapter 26 Importance of silicon in bone health: advances and challenges.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783031698767

3031698762