Technology readiness and overcoming barriers to sustainably implement nanotechnology-enabled plant agriculture

Thilo Hofmann; Gregory Victor Lowry; Subhasis Ghoshal; Nathalie Tufenkji; Davide Brambilla; John Robert Dutcher; Leanne M. Gilbertson; Juan Pablo Giraldo; Joseph Matthew Kinsella; Markita Patricia Landry; Wess Lovell; Rafik Naccache; Mathews Paret; Joel Alexander Pedersen; Jason Michael Unrine; Jason Christopher White; Kevin James Wilkinson

doi:10.1038/s43016-020-0110-1

Technology readiness and overcoming barriers to sustainably implement nanotechnology-enabled plant agriculture

Thilo Hofmann, Gregory Victor Lowry, Subhasis Ghoshal, Nathalie Tufenkji, Davide Brambilla, John Robert Dutcher, Leanne M. Gilbertson, Juan Pablo Giraldo, Joseph Matthew Kinsella, Markita Patricia Landry, Wess Lovell, Rafik Naccache, Mathews Paret, Joel Alexander Pedersen, Jason Michael Unrine, Jason Christopher White, Kevin James Wilkinson

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Abstract

Nanotechnology offers potential solutions for sustainable agriculture, including increasing nutrient utilization efficiency, improving the efficacy of pest management, mitigating the impacts of climate change, and reducing adverse environmental impacts of agricultural food production. Many promising nanotechnologies have been proposed and evaluated at different scales, but several barriers to implementation must be addressed for technology to be adopted, including efficient delivery at field scale, regulatory and safety concerns, and consumer acceptance. Here we explore these barriers, and rank technology readiness and potential impacts of a wide range of agricultural applications of nanotechnology. We propose pathways to overcome these barriers and develop effective, safe and acceptable nanotechnologies for agriculture.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	416-425
Number of pages	10
Journal	Nature Food
Volume	1
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-020-0110-1
State	Published - Jul 2020

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This Review Article resulted from an expert workshop held in July 2019, hosted and supported by the Trottier Institute for Sustainability in Engineering and Design, McGill University. N.T. and J.R.D. acknowledge support from the Canada Research Chairs program. J.P.G., J.A.P. and J.C.W. acknowledge support from the National Science Foundation under the Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology (CHE-1503408). T.H. and J.A.P. acknowledge support from the TISED Scholar-In-Residence program. J.P.G. and G.V.L. acknowledge support from the National Science Foundation (CBET-1911820). J.M.U. acknowledges support from the National Science Foundation (CBET-1712323). K.J.W. acknowledges the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council and Environment and Climate Change Canada. D.B. acknowledges support from the Canadian Generic Pharmaceutical Association and Biosimilars, Canada. We acknowledge the input from S. R. Leslie and M. Kurylowicz during the workshop, and A. Kundu in preparing the reference list.

Funders	Funder number
Canadian Generic Pharmaceutical Association and Biosimilars, Canada
TISED	CBET-1712323, CBET-1911820
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology	CHE-1503408
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
Canada Excellence Research Chairs, Government of Canada
Environment and Climate Change Canada

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Food Science
Animal Science and Zoology
Agronomy and Crop Science

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Hofmann, T., Lowry, G. V., Ghoshal, S., Tufenkji, N., Brambilla, D., Dutcher, J. R., Gilbertson, L. M., Giraldo, J. P., Kinsella, J. M., Landry, M. P., Lovell, W., Naccache, R., Paret, M., Pedersen, J. A., Unrine, J. M., White, J. C., & Wilkinson, K. J. (2020). Technology readiness and overcoming barriers to sustainably implement nanotechnology-enabled plant agriculture. Nature Food, 1(7), 416-425. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-020-0110-1

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