Open AccessMICROENCAPSULATION AND ITS UTILIZATION IN THE SECTOR OF HORTICULTURE : A REVIEW
Author(s) -
Ankan Das
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
plant archives/plant archives
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2581-6063
pISSN - 0972-5210
DOI - 10.51470/plantarchives.2021.v21.no2.050
Subject(s) - trustworthiness , coating , biochemical engineering , microbiology and biotechnology , process (computing) , health benefits , engineering , nanotechnology , materials science , biology , computer science , traditional medicine , medicine , computer security , operating system
Microencapsulation today has evolved as a trustworthy tool in providing endurance to majority of the biologically active compounds which in general are not so stable and tends to degenerate very easily. In the field of horticulture, the horticultural commodities are stacked with such important active compounds. These compounds help in providing an advantageous output against various types of diseases and health related issues and ailments. But as mentioned majority of these important substances are not very rigid and extremely susceptible to changes in the environment, which may be physical, chemical or biological type. Therefore microencapsulation comes out as an important an protective tool where these targeted compounds called as the core materials are being covered or wrapped by the encapsulation process through outer coating called as the wall material and final product called as the microcapsules are delivered which have an increased availability and high effectiveness of the core materials inside. Therefore, the present paper is aimed in discussing about the process of microencapsulation in brief and to through a light toward some of the works of microencapsulation which has been successfully carried out in the discipline of horticulture.