This book covers the recent developments in biopolymer nanocomposite materials and their possible impact on the food packaging industry. The food industry has been one of the highest consumers of plastics for the past two decades, where plastics have been used in huge amounts as food packaging materials. The generation of non-biodegradable plastic-based municipal solid waste, especially due to food packaging industry, has now become one of the two paramount problems faced by the world today. The other problem is being the wastage of food in humongous quantities annually. With the onset of...

This book explores the impact of chitosan nanoparticles on plants under various stress conditions. The book highlights the versatility and efficacy of chitosan nanoparticles as a stress-alleviating agent, emphasizing their role in improving plant health and productivity. It reveals all possible features that chitosan nanoparticles might bear as a stress-alleviating agent, underlining their role in promoting plant health and productivity. This book highlights the molecular and physiological pathways through which a response brought by chitosan nanoparticles occurs and sheds light on their...

This book looks at the plant response to silver nanoparticles (Ag-NPs), which showed both beneficial and harmful effects in a plant system. These responses of Ag-NPs are primarily dependent on the concentration, plant species or cultivars, exposure time, shape, and size of NPs. In general, lower concentrations of Ag-NPs increase seed germination, rate of photosynthesis, and overall growth, but at higher concentrations, all these responses are declined in many plant species. Moreover, Ag-NPs at higher concentration induce stress and or phytotoxicity and produce reactive oxygen species which...