How the nanotechnology used in pest management in agriculture?

Question

now-a-days nanotechnology used in many fields viz., physics, medicine, engineering and other biological sciences. please explain me about the nanotechnology and its application in pest management in agriculture.

Answer 1

i don't know

Answer 2

in agroculture,nanotechnology is used to eliminate all kind of pest by programming them to only seek and eliminates the pests(maybe by searching for their heat) and destroying them instead of the crop.this will ensure the total annihilation of the pests and the crop will be pest free.

Answer 3

In my mind I picture tiny nanobots that have been sprayed on a crop asking for the identification cards of bugs at check points. But seriously the time may come when a nanobot is sprayed or dusted on a crop and waits until a "signature" of it's insect or fungal prey, then unleashes it's protection, possibly in the form of electrical jolts from the captured sun energy, or a few molecules of pesticide (or glue, or tailored virus, etc) or possibly and more probably, a radio transmission that pinpoints a problem, charted then on a computerized map, and alerts the farmer when multiple "signatures" appear in any concentration. To make a nanobot that sends out a small radio signal when it senses a certain signature from a pest, and have a computerized system map and triangulate the signal seems a do-able thing in the near future.

Also nanobots could be used to better identify crop problems or harvest ready areas if a "bot" could be made to sense things like color or chemicals in the air and then transmit a tiny signal like a radio transmitter, to be sensed by a field computer or a hand held wand.

Answer 4

Nanotechnology is currently used in agriculture in pesticide delivery systems, primary in herbicides.  Various techniques are used to encapsulate herbicides, in wetting agents and drift-control agents. Nanochemistry will show most promise with new understanding of conventional chemistry

Answer 5

refer to all the anwers above and u will get it no need to wait for more answers dont u think so

Answer 6

I understand that the "application" of nanotechnology in agriculture is still mostly theoretical (hence my quoteation marks).

(and, of course, nanotech is *not* tiny robots, programmed to perform jobs ... at least, not yet)

The possible applications include:

More sophisticated sensors to detect contaminants in agricultural products (a side-branch off Food Science or Pharmacology, I suppose).

Nanotech packaging to help prevent spoiling.

Indirect nanotech assistance in genetic or cell biological techniques used during selective breeding or genetic modification.

Current applications are generally "nanotech" ways to *use* agricultural products (like electrospinning silk or cellulose).

I have a little difficulty envisioning a pest-management application of current nanotech. The best I can come up with is nanotech-produced pesticides. Pharmacologists are working on nanotech-produced drugs (to improve efficiency of production), and I suppose the same principles could be applied to pesticides.

Answer 7

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