Preface
1. Pros and cons of metal oxide nanomaterial use in Australian broadacre agriculture: Nazanin Nikoo Jamal, Elliott Duncan & Gary Owens; Environmental Contaminants Group, Future Industries Institute, University of South AustraliaBuilding X2-06 Mawson Lakes Campus2. Accumulation of metal-oxide nanomaterials by unicellular algae and their transfer within marine and aquatic food-webs; Elliott Duncan & Gary Owens: Environmental Contaminants Group, Future Industries Institute, University of South Australia3. The chemistry behind nanotoxicological processes in living systems: Guadalupe de la Rosa, Edgar Vazquez, Concepcion Garcia, Laura Lopez, Gustavo Cruz and Gustavo Basurto; Departamento de Ingenierías Química, Electrónica y Biomédica, División de Ciencias e Ingenierías Campus León, Universidad de Guanajuato 4. Nanoparticles and Sustainable Agriculture: Concepts and controversies: Durgesh Kumar Tripathi, Namira Arif, Shivesh Sharma, N K Dubey and D K Chauhan; Center of Medical Diagnostic and Research, Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad5. Elucidating the role of nano-bio interactions in nanotoxicology: Lok R. Pokhrel; Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, College of Public Health, Temple University, USA 6. Potential of nonotechnology for increasing micronutrients fertilizer use efficiency in crop production: S K Singh and Yukti Verma; Department of Soil Science & Agricultural Chemistry, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India7. Fate and effect of engineered nanomaterials in agricultural systems; Jason White: The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, New Haven, CT, USA8. Effects of engineered nanomaterials on the alleviation of abiotic stress in plants: M. Djanaguiraman, P.V.V. Prasad and O.P. Dhankher; Sustainable Intensification Innovation Lab, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, USA 9. Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles Interactions: I. In vitro Studies in Animal Cells: Ashley Cox and Shivendra Sahi; Department of Biology, University of Sciences, 600 South 43rd Street, Philadelphia, USA10. Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles Interactions: II. An Analysis Based on Animal Organ System: Ashley Cox and Nilesh Sharma; Department of Biology, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY, USA11. Engineered nanomaterials toxicity at different growth phases of agricultural species: Swati Rawat, Yi Wang, Chaoyi Deng, Yuqing Yeb, Carolina B. Valdes, Jose R. Peralta-Videa and Jorge. L. Gardea-Torresdey; Department of Chemistry & Environmental Science & Engineering, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX, USA 12. Nanotoxicology Research Based on Drosophila Models: Ananya Sharma & Ajay Srivastava; Dept of Biology, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY USA13. Caenorhabditis elegans - A unique animal model to study soil-nanoparticles-organism interactions; Daniel Starnes, Catherine Starnes: Department of Biology, Belmont University, Nashville, TN, USA14. Cytotoxic efficacy of green engineered biomolecules-loaded silver nanoparticles on HeLa Cell line using leaf extracts of Leucas aspera: P. Venkatachalam, U. Jinu and T. Bhuvaneswari; Department of Biotechnology, Periyar University, Salem, India15. Zebrafish models of nanotoxicity - A comprehensive account: Silvia Giordani; University of Turin, Chemistry Department, Via Giuria, Torino, Italy16. Responses of terrestrial plants to metallic nanomaterial exposure - a Mechanistic analysis: Keni Cota-Ruiz, Swati Rawat, Jose R. Peralta-Videa and Jorge. L. Gardea-Torresdey; Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX, USAIndex