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Chemical Pesticides and Soil Health: The Urgent Need for a New Concept in Agriculture

A special issue of Agriculture (ISSN 2077-0472). This special issue belongs to the section "Agricultural Soils".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 June 2024 | Viewed by 1303

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Romualda Bejger

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Department of Bioengineering, West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin, Papieża Pawła VI No 3, 71-459 Szczecin, Poland
Interests: behavior of pesticides; soil organic matter; spectroscopic methods
Dr. Małgorzata Włodarczyk

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Department of Bioengineering, West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin, Papieża Pawła VI No 3, 71-459 Szczecin, Poland
Interests: pesticides mobility; formulation; soil; hydrogel microcapsules;controlled release of pesticides

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Progress in the use of chemical pesticides is the result of progress in a variety of areas, such as production technique, the technical scope of application equipment, agricultural production technology and farm management framework. The intensive application of chemical pesticides contributes to the intensification of food production, but at the same time, may be one of the main source of the anthropogenic pollution of soils. The widespread use of pesticides in agricultural areas promotes the deterioration of soil quality. Pesticide residues occurring in the soil are primary toxic chemicals that adversely affect human health and represent a serious risk regarding their introduction into the food chain. Thus, the health-related and environmental effects of chemical pesticides pose a serious problem that urgently requires new approaches, especially in terms of the reformation of agricultural practices and the implementation of sustainable and environmentally friendly methods.

This Special Issue will focus mainly on the impact of pesticides on the health of agricultural soils through different approaches and will present new agricultural concepts that are able to address the problem of pesticides' harmful effects and eliminate the difficulties associated with their use.

Dr. Romualda Bejger
Dr. Małgorzata Włodarczyk
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • soil health
  • soil pollution
  • organic contaminants
  • pesticides
  • herbicides
  • fungicides
  • insecticides
  • food security
  • sustainable practices
  • reforming agricultural practices

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Impact of Cypermethrin (Arpon G) on Soil Health and Zea mays Growth: A Microbiological and Enzymatic Study
by Agata Borowik, Jadwiga Wyszkowska, Magdalena Zaborowska and Jan Kucharski
Agriculture 2023, 13(12), 2261; https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture13122261 - 11 Dec 2023
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In defining the research objective, consideration was given to the expanding range of applications of third-generation pyrethroids, including cypermethrin—the active substance in Arpon G preparation. The interest in cypermethrin is due to its high thermostability and photostability. This study verified the effect of [...] Read more.
In defining the research objective, consideration was given to the expanding range of applications of third-generation pyrethroids, including cypermethrin—the active substance in Arpon G preparation. The interest in cypermethrin is due to its high thermostability and photostability. This study verified the effect of Arpon G on both the soil condition and the growth and development of Zea mays. To this end, the alpha and beta diversity of bacterial and fungal communities were characterized using the NGS (Next Generation Sequencing) method, as was the response of soil enzymes. The positive response of Z. mays to the soil application of cypermethrin corresponded to higher soil microbial and biochemical activity. Sowing the soil with Z. mays moderated changes in the biodiversity of alpha- and beta-bacterial communities to a greater extent than cypermethrin. The influence of both parameters was less significant for fungi. Although bacteria belonging to the Actinobacteria phylum and fungi from the Ascomycota phylum dominated in the soil, the use of Arpon G reduced the abundance of unique nucleotide sequences in the mycobiome to a greater extent than in the bacteriobiome. The inhibitory potential of Arpon G was only evident for acid phosphatase (by 81.49%) and arylsulfatase (by 16.66%) in the soil sown with Z. mays. The activity of catalase, dehydrogenases, β-glucosidase, arylsulfatase, and alkaline phosphatase was most strongly associated with the abundance of bacteria, while dehydrogenases were correlated with the abundance of fungi at the genus level. Arpon G can, thus, be considered a safe insecticide for soil conditions and, consequently, for its productive function. Full article
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