PESTICIDES IN THE ENVIRONMENT Impact, Assessment, and Remediation

1st Edition - November 15, 2023
Editors: Anket Sharma, Vinod Kumar, Bingsong Zheng
Language: English
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Pesticides in a Changing Environment: Impact, Assessment, and Remediation covers compounds that repel, kill or to prevent any pest. On the basis of the target killed, pestic… Read more

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Pesticides in a Changing Environment: Impact, Assessment, and Remediation covers compounds that repel, kill or to prevent any pest. On the basis of the target killed, pesticides are mainly classified as herbicides, fungicides and insecticides. The increased demand of food on account of population explosion has compelled man to use pesticides for better crop production. However, there are many negative impacts of these chemical agrochemicals like toxicity to non-target organisms and retention in bio-systems in the form of their residues, leading to harmful effects on the food chain and food web.

This book will be an important source of information for researchers and academicians working in the field of pesticide pollution, its physiology and biochemistry, and development of pesticide remediation technologies.

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Title Page
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Contents
Contributors
Chapter 1 Impact of pesticides on aquatic invertebrates and vertebrates: Recent updates and future perspectives
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Pesticide toxicity to aquatic invertebrates
1.3 Pesticide toxicity to aquatic vertebrates
1.4 Conclusion
References
Chapter 2 Pesticide types and mechanism of their action in nontarget organisms
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Pesticides: types and classification
2.3 Pesticide toxicity and their mechanism of action in plants
2.4 Pesticide toxicity and their mechanism of action in humans
2.5 Pesticide toxicity and their mechanism of action in honeybees
2.6 Pesticide toxicity and their mechanism of action in soil microbes
2.7 Pesticide toxicity and their mechanism of action in the aquatic ecosystem (fish)
2.8 Pesticide detoxification mechanism in plants
2.9 Conclusion and future prospects
References
Chapter 3 Pesticide biology in soil: Sorption, leaching, and accumulation
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Release of pesticides in soil during agricultural activities
3.3 Pesticide sorption by soil organic matter
3.4 Effect of pesticide on soil process
3.5 Leaching of pesticides in soil
3.6 Impact of pesticides on the soil biology
3.7 Accumulation of pesticides in soil and its remediation
3.8 Conclusion and future prospects
Acknowledgment
Conflicts of interest
References
Chapter 4 Pesticide biology in plants: Plant uptake, translocation, and accumulation
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Effect of pesticides on plants
4.3 Plant uptake
4.4 Translocation of pesticides
4.5 Storage and metabolism of pesticides
4.6 Conclusion
References
Chapter 5 Impact of pesticide application on the food chain and food web
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Pesticide types and occurrences in the environment
5.3 Pesticide transfer: from environment to food (food chain/web)
5.4 Pesticide residues impact
5.5 Conclusion
References
Chapter 6 Methods for pesticide residue analysis: Recent advancements
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Method validation
6.3 Different parameters of method validation
6.4 Detection techniques for pesticide residual analysis
6.5 Instrumental detection methods
6.6 Advanced extraction and detection methods
6.7 Residue analysis in various systems
6.8 Conclusion and future prospective
References
Chapter 7 Impact of pesticide application: Positive and negative side
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Positive side of pesticide application
7.3 Negative side of pesticide application
7.4 Conclusion and future prospects
References
Chapter 8 Pesticides-mediated ROS generation in plants
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Various classes of pesticides and their comparison in terms of ROS generation
8.3 The pesticide-induced oxidative burst
8.4 Effect of pesticides on ROS-generating systems
8.5 Effect of pesticides on ROS scavenging systems
8.6 Various methods to reduce pesticide-induced oxidative stress in plants
8.7 Conclusion and future prospects
Conflicts of interest
Acknowledgment
References
Chapter 9 Pesticide impacts on humans
9.1 Introduction
9.2 History of pesticides
9.3 Classification of pesticides
9.4 Pyrethroids
9.5 Importance of pesticides
9.6 Pesticides and humans
9.7 Conclusion
Acknowledgment
References
Chapter 10 Role of microbes in pesticide bioremediation: Recent advances and biotechnological implications
10.1 Pesticides as an environmental toxic and bio-remediation strategy thereof
10.2 Microbial-assisted bioremediation
10.3 Enzymatic degradation pathway of pesticides by microbes
10.4 Bioremediation processes
10.5 Recent advances and biotechnological implications
10.6 Conclusion
References
Chapter 11 Impact of nanopesticides in the environment: Solutions, threats, and opportunities
11.1 Introduction
11.2 Health impacts
11.3 Emerging trends and future perspectives
11.4 Agricultural applications of stimuli responsive systems
11.5 Temperature-sensitive systems
11.6 Conclusions and future perspectives
References
Chapter 12 Plant hormones (brassinosteroids, salicylates, and jasmonates) as potential mitigators of pesticide and herbicide stress in plants
12.1 Introduction
12.2 Effect of brassinosteroids on the herbicide and pesticide stress
12.3 Effect of salicylates on the herbicide and pesticide stress
12.4 Effect of jasmonates on herbicide and pesticide stress
12.5 Conclusion
References
Chapter 13 Alternatives to chemical pesticides: Current trends and future implications
13.1 Introduction
13.2 Advantages of using biopesticides over conventional chemical pesticides
13.3 Adverse effects of chemical pesticides on human health
13.4 Types of biopesticides and their modes of action
13.5 Current scenario of biopesticides
13.6 Limitations and challenges in the promotion, commercialization, and consumption of biopesticides
13.7 Way forward: Future prospective to be considered
13.8 Policy recommendations
13.9 Conclusion
References
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PESTICIDES IN THE ENVIRONMENT Impact, Assessment, and Remediation

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Anket Sharma

Vinod Kumar

Bingsong Zheng