Emerging Contaminants

Sustainable Agriculture and the Environment

Arpna Kumari, Vishnu D. Rajput, Saglara S. Mandzhieva, Tatiana Minkina, Eric D. van Hullebusch, Arpna Kumari, Vishnu D. Rajput, Saglara S. Mandzhieva, Tatiana Minkina, Eric D. van Hullebusch

• Publisher: Woodhead Publishing
• Year: 2024
• ISBN:
  9780443189869
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Subtopic: Agriculture
• Index: Technology & Engineering

Emerging Contaminants: Sustainable Agriculture and the Environment provides a thorough, comprehensive, and interdisciplinary overview of the many categories of emerging pollutants, including pharmaceuticals, insecticides, personal care items, and industrial chemicals that are currently impacting the environment. With insights into the exposure associated consequences on crops and edible plants, the book is designed to enable foundational understanding as the basis for future research, as well as practical application in current environments.

Following an introduction to environmental contaminants, the book goes on to discuss their fate in soils, the most up-to-date analytical methods for detecting them in different environmental matrices, and current regulatory restrictions. Finally, the book comes to a close with the last chapter dedicated to conclusions and future perspectives.

Emerging Contaminants is an ideal resource for researchers and professionals from a variety of sciences.

• Focuses on the extensive emission of ECs raising concerns of toxicity in crop plants, in the environment, and also to human beings via the food chain
• Includes examples and real-world insights
• Highlights interaction of different categories of ECs with crop plants their toxicity and fate in the environment

Table of contents

• Cover image
• Title page
• Table of Contents
• Copyright
• List of contributors
• Chapter one. An introductory overview of emerging pollutants and challenges for their regulation
• Chapter two. Insights into the analytical procedures for the detection of emerging contaminants from water, soils, and sediments
• Chapter three. Occurrence of microplastics and nanoplastics in terrestrial ecosystem and their toxicological impacts in plants
• Chapter four. Occurrence of emerging contaminants in soils and impacts on rhizosphere
• Chapter Five. The ubiquity of microplastics and phthalates in aquatic ecosystems and toxicological concerns
• Chapter six. Phytotoxicity, cytotoxicity and genotoxicity of pharmaceutical products along with their transport and fate
• Chapter seven. Appraisal on accumulation of nanoenabled agrochemicals in plants with subsequent morphophysiological implications
• Chapter eight. EDCs exposure-induced alteration in the germination, growth, and physiological trait of the plant
• Chapter nine. Nanomaterial-induced phytotoxicity and challenges to ongoing agricultural practices
• Chapter ten. Personal care products in agroecosystem: ubiquity, sources, and toxicity insights
• Chapter eleven. Contamination of arable soils with perfluorinated compounds and their exposure-mediated modulations in plants
• Chapter twelve. Effects of veterinary antibiotics on the soil properties
• Chapter thirteen. Pollution of silver and silver nanoparticles in the ecosystems and their interactions with plants and soil microbiota
• Chapter fourteen. Perchlorate stress in plants: insights into growth and physiological consequences
• Chapter fifteen. Contamination of arable soils with bisphenol A and phthalates along with their consequent impacts on the crops
• Chapter sixteen. Bioremediation of emerging pollutants: a sustainable remediation approach
• Chapter seventeen. Exploitation of plants for the removal of emerging contaminants from the environment: a green technology
• Chapter eighteen. Cyanotoxin pollution in water bodies and soils imposes potential risks to the surrounding flora
• Index