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.
摘要：
可持续和精确的防御工事做法对于确保日益增长的人口的粮食安全是必要的。精准农业旨在通过开发用于实际农业实践的智能材料来最大限度地减少化肥和农药的使用。这里,我们表明，在田间试验中，可以有效地利用仿生矿化来包封和可控地释放植物生物刺激剂（MiZax-3），以提高辣椒（Capsicumannum）作物的质量和产量。在现场条件下，ZIF-8封装MiZax-3（MiZIF）可以显着提高其稳定性约679倍（6p值=0.0072）。我们的结果表明，配位锌离子和MiZax-3在提高生产水果中锌含量2倍中起着至关重要的作用，这是关于水果中锌含量的这种性质的第一份报告。我们将此平台视为研究精准农业中其他基于生物相容性协调的微量营养素输送平台的起点。
