Commercialization and Market Potential of Nanobiostimulants

The utilization of nanomaterials, including nanobiostimulants, in agricultural sectors signifies an innovative and effective approach to increase plant growth, improve resilience to stress factors, and eventually maximize total crop production. The application of nanobiostimulants as plant growth regulators and organic compounds in nanoscale carriers depicted the increase in global market demand. This chapter emphasizes the utilization of nanobiostimulants in agricultural sectors including their advantages, commercialization, and global market demand including its future prospect. Furthermore, the basic and dynamic idea behind nanobiostimulants is their capability to overcome the complications along with challenges associated with traditional biostimulant applications. Nanobiostimulants are effective and significant for their positive impact on plant physiology, which includes improved nutrient absorption, stress tolerance, and quality of the crops. The efficiency of the traditional biostimulants is frequently hampered by challenges such as rapid degradation, low solubility, and inconsistency in plant delivery. These challenging factors are now being effectively reduced by the development of nanobiostimulants. In spite of its potential in optimizing the crop production and market profit, nanobiostimulants are facing global challenges about its regulation and legislation, cost-effectiveness, and safety concern. Thus, this chapter includes the global challenges and future prospects of the nanobiostimulants in order to educate consumers and to reduce the knowledge gap about these innovative products. In summary, nanobiostimulants is an innovation that enhances crop production and could be a wise solution to cater global food security challenges. However, safety concern, sustainability, and cost effectiveness of advanced nanobiostimulants require more research and development to gain trust among consumers.