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This volume 'Agrochemicals in Soil and Environment: Impacts and Remediation' is a comprehensive collection of important literature on agrochemical contamination. The main focus of this book is to point out undesirable changes in biological, physical and chemical characteristics of agricultural soils and its impacts on global agricultural crop productivity. Soil is one of the important resources of basic needs for our sustenance but due to various anthropogenic activities like urbanization and industrialization, the soil is losing its basic quality characteristics. Soil microorganisms, water holding capacity, minerals, salts and nutrients are under the direct threat due to agrochemicals therefore, agricultural sector is facing a serious challenge. Lack of proper knowledge and luxurious applications of agrochemicals resulting into degradation and deterioration of soil quality, loss of soil and crop productivity and threatening the food security. Therefore, it is imperative to developindices, indicators and soil parameters for the monitoring and impact assessment of agricultural contaminants. Further, biotic and abiotic stresses and their tolerance mechanisms in plants in relation to the soil contaminants such as toxic pollutants, heavy metals, inorganic and organic matters, variety of pesticides, insecticides, herbicides, agricultural runoffs and solid wastes, and chemical fertilizers are also highlighted in this volume. This book also discusses causes of reduced agriculture productivity and suggests sustainable measures such as plant-based technologies, bioremediation and nanotechnology, that can be used to overcome the crop losses. The book is interest to research students, teachers, agricultural scientists, agronomists, environmentalists as well as policy makers.
Contents
Chapter 1. Agrochemicals in Soil and Environment: An Overview.- Chapter 2. Agrochemicals- Provenance, Environmental Fate and Remediation Measures.- Chapter 3. Impact of Agrochemicals on Soil Microbiota.- Chapter 4. Agriculture Pollution in Kerala, India with Special Reference to Endosulphan.- Chapter 5. An Intergenerational Community-Based Approach to Safe Farming and Environmental Health.- Chapter 6. Guidance on Pesticides Handling in Farming.- Chapter 7. Impact of Pesticides, Herbicides and Insecticides on the Ecosystem.- Chapter 8. Pesticides and its Effects on Plants: A Case Study of Deltamethrin.- Chapter 9. The Use of Glyphosate in Regions of Argentina and Colombia and its Socio-environmental Impacts.- Chapter 10. Impact of Insecticides on Soil and Environment and their Management Strategies.- Chapter 11. Role of Insect Pest Management in Agriculture Conservation.- Chapter 12. Mobility of Trace Elements in Agricultural Soils- Chapter 13. The effects of nutrient enrichment on nutrient-poor ecosystems: Insights from the study of serpentine soil plant relations.- Chapter 14. Soil Erosion and Sedimentation - A Source of Contamination and Impact on Agriculture Productivity.- Chapter 15. Plastics in the Soil Environment: An Overview.- Chapter 16. Lead and cadmium contamination in the soil environment: Impacts on plant growth and human health.- Chapter 17. Heavy metals contamination on farmlands in the crude oil exploration area.- Chapter 18. Effect of Trace Elements in Soils and Its Management.- Chapter 19. Remediation of Agrochemicals in Soil and Environment.- Chapter 20. Alleviation in the Toxicity of Heavy Metals on Agricultural Crops by Metal Resistant Bacteria.- Chapter 21. Bioremediation Strategies to Mitigate the Impact of Atrazine in the Environment: Recent Advances and Prospects. Chapter 22. Aspergillus Mediated Bioremediation of Agrochemicals- Current Progress and Future Perspectives.- Chapter 23. Implications of Phytohormones as Agro-chemicals under Dynamic Environmental Conditions.- Chapter 24. Role of Genetically Modified Bacteria for Alleviating of Agrochemical Impact on the Environment.- Chapter 25. 'Omics Perspective' - Molecular Blue-print for Agrochemical Remediation.- Chapter 26. Impact and Remediation of Agrochemicals in Soil and Environment: Conclusions and Future Perspectives.
