Application of silica nanoparticles For maize growth and yield Improvement

Abstract

Nanoscience and nanotechnology is enabling the development over newlinea wide range of nanomaterials for enhanced plant growth The potential newlineapplications of nanomaterials are increasing in different fields especially in newlineagricultural biotechnology In general silica is essentially required for newlinemonocotyledons such as rice and maize for their sustained growth However newlinethe investigations on the behaviour of nano scale silica in plants and the newlinemechanism of interaction in agriculture are still under rudimentary stage newlineHence this study is aimed to use silica nanoparticles for maize growth and to newlineassess the growth discriminations and conferred disease resistance for better newlineyield newlineNano silica is extracted from natural silica source such as rice newlinehusk biomass using alkali extraction followed by acid precipitation method newlineThe synthesised silica nanoparticles are subjected to comprehensive newlinecharacterisation techniques newline newline