Threat of arsenic contamination, salinity and water pollution in agricultural practices of Sundarban Delta, India, and mitigation strategies

A Nath, S Samanta, S Banerjee, AA Danda… - SN Applied Sciences, 2021 - Springer
The paper through a critical appraisal of the agricultural practices in the Indian Sundarban
deltaic region explores the tripartite problems of arsenic biomagnification, salinity of arable …

An extensive review of arsenic dynamics and its distribution in soil-aqueous-rice plant systems in south and Southeast Asia with bibliographic and meta-data analysis

R Mondal, A Majumdar, S Sarkar, C Goswami… - Chemosphere, 2024 - Elsevier
Millions of people worldwide are affected by arsenic (As) contamination, particularly in South
and Southeast Asian countries, where large-scale dependence on the usage of As …

[HTML][HTML] Rice seed (IR64) priming with potassium humate for improvement of seed germination, seedling growth and antioxidant defense system under arsenic stress

D Mridha, I Paul, A De, I Ray, A Das, M Joardar… - Ecotoxicology and …, 2021 - Elsevier
The intolerable levels of arsenic (As) in groundwater and its application in rice cultivation are
continuously affecting the rice production in Ganga-Meghna-Brahmaputra (GMB) plain. The …

Arsenic toxicity in livestock growing in arsenic endemic and control sites of West Bengal: risk for human and environment

A Das, M Joardar, NR Chowdhury, A De… - … geochemistry and health, 2021 - Springer
The present study aims to estimate geochemical arsenic toxicity in the domestic livestock
and possible risk for human and environment caused by them. Daily dietary arsenic intake of …

Distribution, prevalence and health risk assessment of fluoride and arsenic in groundwater from lower Gangetic plain in West Bengal, India

A De, D Mridha, M Joardar, A Das… - Groundwater for …, 2022 - Elsevier
Distribution pattern of fluoride and arsenic in groundwater (n= 984) from 35 wards of Rajpur-
Sonarpur Municipality and its associated health risk have been evaluated. Presence of …

Health effect and risk assessment of the populations exposed to different arsenic levels in drinking water and foodstuffs from four villages in arsenic endemic Gaighata …

M Joardar, A Das, NR Chowdhury, D Mridha… - Environmental …, 2021 - Springer
Health exposure and perception of risk assessment have been evaluated on the populations
exposed to different arsenic levels in drinking water (615, 301, 48, 20 µg/l), rice grain (792 …

Pollution index and health risk assessment of arsenic through different groundwater sources and its load on soil-paddy-rice system in a part of Murshidabad district of …

A Das, M Joardar, A De, D Mridha… - Groundwater for …, 2021 - Elsevier
The present study investigates the As-contamination scenario in groundwater and treated
drinking water sources from all the 9 gram panchayats under Raninagar-II block …

Antioxidant enzymes and transporter genes mediate arsenic stress reduction in rice (Oryza sativa L.) upon thiourea supplementation

MK Upadhyay, A Majumdar, AK Srivastava, S Bose… - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
Thiourea (TU) is a chemo-priming agent and non-physiological reactive oxygen species
(ROS) scavenger whose application has been found to reduce As accumulation in rice …

Chemical speciation of trace metals in atmospheric deposition and impacts on soil geochemistry and vegetable bioaccumulation near a large copper smelter in China

HL Liu, J Zhou, M Li, D Obrist, XZ Wang… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2021 - Elsevier
Atmospheric deposition is an important source of trace metals to surface environments, but
knowledge about plant bioavailability of recently deposited metals and their fate in the soil …

Thiourea supplementation mediated reduction of grain arsenic in rice (Oryza sativa L.) cultivars: a two year field study

MK Upadhyay, A Majumdar, A Barla, S Bose… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2021 - Elsevier
The present study delineates the interactions of arsenic (As), a carcinogenic metalloid, and
thiourea (TU), a non-physiological reactive oxygen species (ROS) scavenger, in rice plants …