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Fertilizers are a fundamental agricultural input, necessary to maintain high yields and exploit soils and growing substrates that are otherwise unsuitable for plant breeding. Nevertheless, their overuse and mismanagement have led to significant negative environmental impacts, such as water pollution, high greenhouse gas emissions and soil degradation. Since the early 2000s, nanofertilizers have been touted as an innovation useful to improve both the sustainability and effectiveness of fertilization methods. The st...