A rapidly growing human population has resulted in a demand for increased food production. In ancient times, traditional agriculture could meet human food needs when the size of human population was small. As human population grew, the demand for food in
“The next question was: ‘Will this do anything to our baby?’” As it turns out, these chemicals can pass through the placenta, gaining access to the baby’s bloodstream and, eventually, its delicate, developing brain. The brain is more vulnerable at that time than almost any other, ...
of “rural sprawl” (as described by Brown et al.2005), which is not necessarily housed within metropolitan counties, affects large parcels of land. The most attractive locations for these high-amenity developments are typically those with rich biodiversity since access to outdoor recreation and na...
Under a Creative Commons license open accessHighlights Abstract Massive use of pesticides in conventional agriculture leads to accumulation in soil of complex mixtures, triggering questions about their potential ecotoxicological risk. This study assessed cropland soils containing pesticide mixtures sampled from...
Some of the fun facts about peanut butter: it is packed with protein and has been shown to decrease the risk of type-2 diabetes. The not-so-fun facts about peanut butter: Peanuts are actually legumes and unlike nuts (which have hard shells) have soft, porous shells, which contaminants (...
So far, management practices to decrease the usage of pesticides are employed by the countable countries (Schreinemachers and Tipraqsa, 2012). However, it can be achieved by increasing the herbicide and fungicide or bactericide uses. According to Schreinemachers and Tipraqsa (2012), four major...
decrease in cocoon production ofA.caliginosa(Alshawish et al.2004; Booth and O'Halloran2001; Booth et al.2000b). Glyphosate may affect cocoon hatchability and therefore the number of juveniles as well as growth, thus modifying the time to maturation (Correia and Moreira2010; Springett and ...
Analysis of various studies on exposure to pesticides in the microbiota of various tissues and organisms revealed a decrease in Firmicutes and an increase in Bacteroidetes, a finding which, if extrapolated to the oral cavity, would have repercussions on its microbial balance. Furthermore, it was ...
The AhR-dependent activation of B1a CD5+ B cells generates a decrease in natural IgM production [93,94]. These cells in the peritoneal intestine and pleura are essential for antibacterial response in infancy and old age when the immune system is developing or declining. It was recently ...
Handling after harvesting may markedly decrease the pesticide residues in most fruits and vegetables for human consumption, as a result of the peeling and washing processes [8]. On the other hand, the non-edible parts of fruits and vegetables after processing constitute around 10 to 60% of the...