Fungicides account for more than 35% of the global pesticide market and their use is
predicted to increase in the future. While fungicides are commonly applied during bloom …

Environmental pollution is usually monitored via mass spectrometry-based approaches.
Such techniques are extremely sensitive but have several disadvantages. The instruments …

Pesticides are widely applied in agriculture to combat disease, pests, and weeds, leading to
long-lasting contamination of agricultural soils with pesticide residues. While classical risk …

In the fight against arthropod crop pests using plant secondary metabolites, most research
has focussed on the identification of bioactive molecules. Several hundred candidate plant …

Pesticides reach aquatic ecosystems and interact with various targets in cells of fish and
other living organisms. Toxicity originates during the metabolization process, which may …

Pesticides are a hidden threat to humans, animals, insects, as well as to all ecosystems.
They control pests and play an important role in crop productivity and prevent vector borne …

Agroforestry can provide ecosystem services and benefits such as soil erosion control,
microclimate modification for yield enhancement, economic diversification, livestock …

In recent decades an increase in the use of pesticides to protect plants from pests, diseases
and weeds has been observed. There are many studies on the effects of various pesticides …

In plant biology, metabolomics is often used to quantitatively assess small molecules,
metabolites, and their intermediates in plants. Metabolomics has frequently been applied to …

Aquatic contamination in agricultural areas is a global problem, characterized by a complex
mixture of organic and inorganic pollutants whose effects on biota are unpredictable and …