Plant Biostimulation with Nanomaterials

Dr. Antonio Juárez-Maldonado is an agricultural engineer from the Autonomous University of Zacatecas, Master of Science in Horticulture and Doctor in Production Systems Engineering from the Antonio Narro Autonomous Agrarian University. He is a professor and researcher in the Department of Botany at the Antonio Narro Autonomous Agrarian University and is technical manager of the Conahcyt National Laboratory for Plant Ecophysiology and Food Safety (LANCEVSA). His area of research is plant ecophysiology and focuses on inducing tolerance to biotic and abiotic stress in crops, greenhouse crop production, crop stimulation with nanomaterials and other technologies.Dr. Adalberto Benavides-Mendoza is a biologist by Antonio Narro Autonomous Agrarian University and doctor in Science by Autonomous University of Nuevo Leon, Mexico. He is a professor and researcher in the Department of Horticulture at the Antonio Narro Autonomous Agrarian University, Mexico. His research interests include plant biostimulation, plant nutrition, and stress tolerance induction using nanometric or bulk species of essential and beneficial elements, biopolymers, and industrial or agricultural sludges. His research focuses on the relationship between plant biostimulation, plant nutrition, tolerance to stress, and the nutritional quality and biofortification of vegetables, fruits, and other crops.Dr. Dámaris Leopoldina Ojeda-Barrios has a degree in fruit growing from the Autonomous University of Chihuahua and a PhD in Science from the Antonio Narro Autonomous Agrarian University. She is a professor and researcher at the Faculty of Agrotechnological Sciences of the Autonomous University of Chihuahua, Mexico. Her research interests include plant nutrition, biostimulation, physiology of abiotic stress using nanometric spices in horticultural crops. His research focuses on plant nutrition, stress tolerance, biofortification and biostimulation in temperate fruit trees, horticultural species, and others.Dr. Gonzalo Tortella Fuentes is a professor in the Universidad de La Frontera (Chile). He is the associated member of the Excellence Center in Biotechnological Research Applied to the Environment (CIBAMA). He received his Ph.D. in Natural Resource Sciences in 2008 and the postdoctoral studies during 2008–2010. He has developed research in environmental biotechnology and microbiology, and nanotechnology with agricultural applications. In these research areas has developed several research projects and is author of book chapters, scientific publications, and patents. In the Academy, he has supervised doctoral and undergrad thesis.Dr. Amedea Barozzi Seabra is professor and researcher at Federal University of ABC (UFABC), São Paulo, Brazil. She has a background in Chemistry, Ph.D. in Sciences (State University of Campinas, Unicamp, São Paulo, Brazil) and post-doctoral in chemistry and biochemistry (Concordia University, Montreal, Canada). Her research interests are based on the development of nitric oxide-releasing nanomaterials and biomaterials for biological applications, including agricultural and biomedical fields.

• Hormesis and nanomaterials: From biostimulation to toxicity.- Biostimulation of crops with nanomaterials from a transcriptomic perspective.- Changes in the activity of plant enzymes and proteins associated with biostimulation with nanomaterials.- Changes in the composition of minerals and metabolites in plants exposed to nanomaterials.- Use of nanomaterials for the in vitro production of plants and plant metabolites.- Physiological and morphological responses of crops when applying nanostimulants.- Induction of tolerance to biotic stress by applying nanostimulants to crops.- Induction of tolerance to abiotic stress by applying nanostimulants to crops.- Improvement in the nutritional quality of crops using nanostimulants.- Use of nanomaterials and nanofertilizers to increase fertilizer use efficiency.- Impact of nanomaterials on the post-harvest life of fruits and vegetables.- Microbial biosynthesis of biostimulant nanomaterials and nanofertilizers.- Plant biosynthesis of biostimulant nanomaterials and nanofertilizers.- The flow and transformations of nanomaterials in agricultural ecosystems.- Nanomaterials in the food chains.