Biomimetic Mineralization for Smart Biostimulant Delivery and Crop Micronutrients Fortification

Katya M. Aguliar Perez; Yagiz Alagoz; Batoul Maatouk; Jian You Wang; Lamis Berqdar; Somayah Qutub; Muhammad Jamil; Sara Alnasser; Nouf Binsaleh; Peiyu Lin; Lamyaa Almarwaey; Tadao Asami; Salim Al-Babili; Niveen M. Khashab

doi:10.1021/acs.nanolett.2c04506

Biomimetic Mineralization for Smart Biostimulant Delivery and Crop Micronutrients Fortification

Katya M. Aguliar Perez, Yagiz Alagoz, Batoul Maatouk, Jian You Wang, Lamis Berqdar, Somayah Qutub, Muhammad Jamil, Sara Alnasser, Nouf Binsaleh, Peiyu Lin, Lamyaa Almarwaey, Tadao Asami, Salim Al-Babili^*, Niveen M. Khashab^*

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Abstract

Sustainable and precise fortification practices are necessary to ensure food security for the increasing human population. Precision agriculture aims to minimize the use of fertilizers and pesticides by developing smart materials for real-life agricultural practices. Here, we show that biomimetic mineralization can be efficiently employed to encapsulate and controllably release plant biostimulants (MiZax-3) to improve the quality and yield of capsicum (Capsicum annum) crops in field experiments. ZIF-8 encapsulation of MiZax-3 (MiZIFs) could significantly enhance its stability up to around 679 times (6p value = 0.0072) at field conditions. Our results demonstrate that the coordinating Zn ions and the MiZax-3 play a vital role in improving Zn content in the produced fruits by 2-fold, which is the first report of this nature on Zn content in fruits. We envision this platform as a starting point to investigate other biocompatible coordination-based platforms for micronutrient delivery in precision agriculture.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	4732-4740
Number of pages	9
Journal	Nano Letters
Volume	23
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.2c04506
State	Published - Jun 14 2023

Keywords

bioactive molecules
metal-organic frameworks
precision agriculture
smart delivery
stimuli responsive

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Bioengineering
General Chemistry
General Materials Science
Condensed Matter Physics
Mechanical Engineering

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Aguliar Perez, K. M., Alagoz, Y., Maatouk, B., Wang, J. Y., Berqdar, L., Qutub, S., Jamil, M., Alnasser, S., Binsaleh, N., Lin, P., Almarwaey, L., Asami, T., Al-Babili, S., & Khashab, N. M. (2023). Biomimetic Mineralization for Smart Biostimulant Delivery and Crop Micronutrients Fortification. Nano Letters, 23(11), 4732-4740. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.2c04506

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