Nano Bionic Effect of Multiwall Carbon Nanotubes (MWCNT) and Graphene Oxides (GO) for Climate Resilient Horticultural Plants: A Strategy for Ensuring Food Security
Abstract
Climate change presents some real hurdles for horticultural crops and its becoming clear that unseasonal temps, like warmer days in winter, water scarcity in summer, wild weather during cropping season especially flower bud differentiation and unseasonal rainfall creating huge crop loss. Now, there'sevidence that Integrated Farming Management (IFM) techniques can actually help lessen the bad impacts and still align with current horticultural policies. IFM ensures horticultural practices are more resilient when faced with these climatic changes but in more environmental problems, using new materials like multiwall carbon nanotubes, graphene oxide, and hydrogen rich water (HRW) in horticultural could really help plants handle climate change better. Because the world'spopulation is growing and the environment is getting worse, we need farming methods that don'tharm the environment and can lessen the effects of pollution. These cool nanomaterials have impressive physical qualities, like being superstrong and conducting electricity well, which can help plants grow better and withstand stress. Also, recent research in college of horticulture mojerla, Sri Konda Laxman Telangana Horticultural University on Ramanathapuram Gundu Malli (Jasminum sambac Ait.) shows that improved crop adaptability when it is introduced from Ramanathapuram, Tamil Nadu to Horticultural Instructional Farm, Madanapuram, Telangana and also shown extra abilities in increasing plant height, promotion of number of primary, secondary and tertiary branches, imparted good quality flower attributes and overall performance in changed climate.
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Introduction
Severe impacts of climate change on horticultural crops requires the implementation of effective resilience strategies to strengthen horticultural crops and their vegetative phenology. Developing climate-resilient crops through traditional crop breeding is slow and costly process and time consuming but implementing multiwall carbon nanotube and graphene oxides techniques as it entails high efficient, simple to use by farmers and target alteration to make resilient crops to changed climatic condition. Presently, the effect of crop root on crop root zone and thermal characteristics are poorly understood, and new fertilizers are rarely considered as remedy. College of Horticulture, Mojerla, Sri Konda Laxman Telangana Horticultural University explored the effect of applying multiwall carbon nanotube (MWCNT), Graphene oxide (GO), Hydrogen rich water hold significant potential for improving cultivar Ramanathapuram Gundu Malli (Jasminum sambac Ait.) and enhancing resilience to changed environment and abiotic stresses (Shankaraswamy et al., 2023). MWCNT surface charges may stimulate the production of water channel protein thus improving the plants water transport absorption. From the investigation two types nano inputs (MWCNT, GO) were directly uptake and translocated to roots, stems, and leaves at concentration of 10-50 mg/L that indicates that MWCNT, GO, enhance growth parameter and flower production under dwindling resources. Hydrogen rich water of 1000 ppb proved effective in freshness index of jasmine flowers while reducing the physiological loss of water. According to the several studies revealed that MWCNTs could be an alternative for control of pathogens due to activation of antioxidant defence system in plants by increasing the ascorbic acid, flavonoids content, and the glutathione peroxidase enzyme. Hence, application of MWCNT, GO, Hydrogen rich water (HRW) are promising strategy and found to be alternative to breeding approaches in plants to anticipate, prepare for, respond to, and recover from the impacts climate change, while maintaining their essential functions and adapting to new conditions. Therefore, exogenous application of MWCNT, GO, HRW are holistic and multidimensional approach that combines efforts to adapt to unavoidable changes and mitigate future warming to ensure food security in a changing climate.
Conclusion
Integrating multiwall carbon nanotubes, graphene oxide, and hydrogen-rich water shows a remarkable possibility for improving horticultural methods that withstand climate change. These high-tech materials not only boost the overall physical health of plants but also greatly strengthen their ability to resist climate-related stress. Putting MWCNTs and Graphene oxides and Hydrogen rich water to work in horticultural crops production can bounce back from climate change looks like areal step in horticulture. Combining insights from material science and horticulture might just lead to major advances in making crops more resilient in tough conditions. This kind of comprehensive research approach should be encouraged in production practices of horticultural system. Future studies should probably concentrate on refining how we make and use MWCNTs, graphene oxide, HRW to customize its characteristics for different horticultural crops situations.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT I am extremely grateful to Dr. Girwani for providing moral support CONFLICT OF INTEREST The authors declare that there is no conflict of interest.
