Heavy metals and pesticides toxicity in agricultural soil and plants: Ecological risks and human health implications

A Alengebawy, ST Abdelkhalek, SR Qureshi, MQ Wang - Toxics, 2021 - mdpi.com
Environmental problems have always received immense attention from scientists. Toxicants
pollution is a critical environmental concern that has posed serious threats to human health …

Copper uptake, essentiality, toxicity, detoxification and risk assessment in soil-plant environment

Z Shabbir, A Sardar, A Shabbir, G Abbas, S Shamshad… - Chemosphere, 2020 - Elsevier
Copper (Cu) is an essential metal for human, animals and plants, although it is also
potentially toxic above supra-optimal levels. In plants, Cu is an essential cofactor of …

[HTML][HTML] RNA-based technologies for insect control in plant production

S Liu, M Jaouannet, DMA Dempsey, J Imani… - Biotechnology …, 2020 - Elsevier
RNA interference (RNAi) is a biological process in which small RNA (sRNA) molecules
sequence-specifically silence gene expression at the transcriptional or post-transcriptional …

Oxidative stress, growth inhibition, and DNA damage in earthworms induced by the combined pollution of typical neonicotinoid insecticides and heavy metals

X Yan, J Wang, L Zhu, J Wang, S Li, YM Kim - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Heavy metals pollution of soil and widespread application of neonicotinoid insecticides have
caused environmental problems worldwide. To evaluate ecological toxicity resulting from the …

[HTML][HTML] Antibiotics-heavy metals combined pollution in agricultural soils: Sources, fate, risks, and countermeasures

Y Shu, D Li, T **e, K Zhao, L Zhou, F Li - Green Energy & Environment, 2024 - Elsevier
Agricultural soil is related to food security and human health, antibiotics and heavy metals
(HMs), as two typical pollutants, possess a high coexistence rate in the environmental …

Ecotoxicological impact of dinotefuran insecticide and its metabolites on non-targets in agroecosystem: Harnessing nanotechnology-and bio-based management …

ES Okeke, C Olisah, A Malloum, KA Adegoke… - Environmental …, 2024 - Elsevier
The class of insecticides known as neonicotinoid insecticides has gained extensive
application worldwide. Two characteristics of neonicotinoid pesticides are excellent …

Effects of interaction between enrofloxacin and copper on soil enzyme activity and evaluation of comprehensive toxicity

R Yang, J Wang, L Zhu, J Wang, L Yang, S Mao… - Chemosphere, 2021 - Elsevier
Antibiotics are detected in association with heavy metals in the soil. However, interactions
between antibiotics and heavy metals on soil enzyme activity have yet to been studied …

[HTML][HTML] Deciphering the microbial and genetic responses of anammox biogranules to the single and joint stress of zinc and tetracycline

NS Fan, XL Zhu, J Wu, Z Tian, YH Bai, BC Huang… - Environment …, 2019 - Elsevier
The feasibility of using anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox) process to treat
wastewaters containing antibiotics and heavy metals was evaluated in this study. The …

Response of microbial communities based on full-scale classification and antibiotic resistance genes to azithromycin and copper combined pollution in activated …

YX Gao, X Li, JR Zhao, ZX Zhang, XY Fan - Bioresource Technology, 2021 - Elsevier
This study aimed to investigate the short-term response of abundant-rare genera and
antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) to azithromycin (AZM, 0.05–40 mg/L) and copper (1 …