Modern intensive agricultural practices face numerous challenges that pose major threats to
global food security. In order to address the nutritional requirements of the ever-increasing …

Food wastage and its accumulation are becoming a critical problem around the globe due to
continuous increase of the world population. The exponential growth in food waste is …

Freshwater environments are susceptible to possible contamination by residual antibiotics
that are released through different sources, such as agricultural runoffs, sewage discharges …

The increasing prevalence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria is a global threat to public health.
Agricultural use of antibiotics is believed to contribute to the spread of antibiotic resistance …

Antibiotic-resistant pathogens are profoundly important to human health, but the
environmental reservoirs of resistance determinants are poorly understood. The origins of …

The technology to produce genetically engineered (GE) plants is celebrating its 30th
anniversary and one of the major achievements has been the development of GE crops. The …

The emergence of resistance to all classes of antibiotics in previously susceptible bacterial
pathogens is a major challenge to infectious disease medicine. The origin of the genes …

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria were first described in the 1940s, but whereas new antibiotics
were being discovered at a steady rate, the consequences of this phenomenon were slow to …

Antibiotic-resistant organisms enter into water environments from human and animal
sources. These bacteria are able to spread their genes into water-indigenous microbes …

The large majority of antibiotics currently used for treating infections and the antibiotic
resistance genes acquired by human pathogens each have an environmental origin. Recent …