Description
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
1. Introductory overview of emerging pollutants and challenges for environmental sustainability2. Insights into the analytical procedures for the detection of emerging contaminants from the water, soils, and sediments3. Occurrence of microplastics and nanoplastics in terrestrial ecosystem and their toxicological impacts in plants4. Occurrence of emerging contaminants in soils and impacts on rhizosphere5. Ubiquity of microplastics and phtalates in aquatic ecosystem and ecotoxicological conerns6. Phytotoxicity, cytotoxicity, and genotoxicity of pharmaceutical products along with their transport and fate7. Appraisal on accumulation of nano-enabled agrochemicals in plants with subsequent morpho-physiological implications8. Endocrine-disrupting chemicals exposure induced alterations in the germination, growth, and physiological traits of plants9. Nanomaterials induced phytotoxicity and challenges to agriculture10. Personal care products in agroecosystem: ubiquity, sources, and toxicity insights11. Contamination of arable soils with perfluorinated compounds and their exposure mediated modulations in plants12. Effects of veterinary antibiotics on the soil properties13. Pollution of silver and silver nanoparticles in the ecosystems and their interactions with plants and soil microbiota14. Perchlorate stress in plants: Insights into growth and physiological consequences15. Contamination of arable soils with bisphenol-A and phthalates along with their consequent impacts on the crops16. Bioremediation of emerging pollutants: a sustainable remediation approach17. Exploitation of plants for the removal of emerging contaminants from the environment: a green technology18. Cyanotoxins pollution in waterbodies and soils impose potential risks to the surrounding flora
