| ISBN13: | 9783031698750 |
| ISBN10: | 3031698754 |
| Binding: | Hardback |
| No. of pages: | 463 pages |
| Size: | 235x155 mm |
| Language: | English |
| Illustrations: | 3 Illustrations, black & white; 33 Illustrations, color |
| 700 |
Silicon Advances for Sustainable Agriculture and Human Health
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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.
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.
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.
