Jíménez-Arias David, Morales-Sierra Sarai, Silva Patrícia, Carrêlo Henrique, Gonçalves Adriana, Ganança José Filipe Teixeira, Nunes Nuno, Gouveia Carla S S, Alves Sónia, Borges João Paulo, Pinheiro de Carvalho Miguel  A
ISOPlexis, Center for Sustainable Agriculture and Food Technology, University of Madeira, Campus Universitário da Penteada, 9020-105 Funchal, Portugal.
Grupo de Biología Vegetal Aplicada, Departamento de Botánica, Ecología y Fisiología Vegetal-Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad de La Laguna, Avenida, Astrofísico Francisco Sánchez s/n, 38071 La Laguna, Spain.
Plants (Basel). 2022 Dec 22;12(1):55. doi: 10.3390/plants12010055.
Encapsulation in agriculture today is practically focused on agrochemicals such as pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, or fertilizers to enhance the protective or nutritive aspects of the entrapped active ingredients. However, one of the most promising and environmentally friendly technologies, biostimulants, is hardly explored in this field. Encapsulation of biostimulants could indeed be an excellent means of counteracting the problems posed by their nature: they are easily biodegradable, and most of them run off through the soil, losing most of the compounds, thus becoming inaccessible to plants. In this respect, encapsulation seems to be a practical and profitable way to increase the stability and durability of biostimulants under field conditions. This review paper aims to provide researchers working on plant biostimulants with a quick overview of how to get started with encapsulation. Here we describe different techniques and offer protocols and suggestions for introduction to polymer science to improve the properties of biostimulants for future agricultural applications.
如今，农业领域的包封技术实际上主要集中在农药、除草剂、杀菌剂或肥料等农用化学品上，以增强被包裹活性成分的保护或营养特性。然而，生物刺激素作为最具前景和环境友好型的技术之一，在该领域却几乎未被探索。生物刺激素的包封确实可能是解决其自身性质所带来问题的绝佳方法：它们很容易被生物降解，而且大多数会通过土壤流失，损失大部分化合物，从而使植物无法获取。在这方面，包封似乎是提高生物刺激素在田间条件下稳定性和耐久性的一种实用且有益的方法。这篇综述文章旨在为从事植物生物刺激素研究的人员快速概述如何开始进行包封。在此，我们描述了不同的技术，并提供了引入聚合物科学的方案和建议，以改善生物刺激素的特性，用于未来的农业应用。
