Nano-Technology in Agriculture

Nanotechnology is a growing interdisciplinary science which connects knowledge of biology, chemistry, physics, engineering, and material science (Islam et al., 2009 and Miyazaki et al., 2009; Prasad et al., 2014). It utilizes nanoparticles in equipment and instruments of nanoscale dimensions. Nanoparticle are any material that has one or more dimension at the scale of 1 to 100 nm (Sekhon BS et al., 2014). Due to their small size and large surface are volume ratio, they carry compounds like small molecular drugs, DNA, RNA, proteins and probes with higher efficiency (Albanese A. et al., 2012