(2024) Lins Neto, José Antonio Marques; Belian, Mônica Freire; Araújo, Arthur Luís Silva de; http://lattes.cnpq.br/0168928366474354; http://lattes.cnpq.br/2626644337183959; http://lattes.cnpq.br/4953393960030615
Agriculture is one of the most economically relevant sectors in emerging countries, including Brazil. Significant advances in the agribusiness and floriculture sectors have been witnessed with the use of nanotechnology in the production of inputs, as a tool for pest control, soil recovery and foliar photosynthesis stimulants (FPS). In recent years, carbon dots (CDs) have been gaining more and more prominence in work involving agriculture and plant development. The development of such materials is a technological strategy for increasing food production and plant growth. Given the relevance of this topic and the scarcity of studies discussing the use of PCs in agriculture, the aim of this paper is to carry out a brief review of the literature on these materials and their application in agriculture. The bibliographic search was carried out in databases indexed in the Capes Journal, with Qualis A1-A4 articles, using five keywords (CDs, fluorescence, plants, photosynthesis, CDs-doping) as a search filter in the period 2019-2023. From the research, it was possible to observe the most diverse applications of carbon dots in agriculture, in categories ranging from materials chemistry to biotechnology and engineering.
