Islam Md Meftaul, Kadiyala Venkateswarlu, Rajarathnam Dharmarajan, Prasath Annamalai et al.
Pesticides play a pivotal role in controlling pests and disease infestations not only in urban agriculture but also in non-agricultural settings. Several pesticides like herbicides, insecticides, fungicides, rodenticides, etc. are applied unintentionally at higher concentrations even in small urban ...
Islam Md Meftaul, Kadiyala Venkateswarlu, Rajarathnam Dharmarajan, Prasath Annamalai et al.
Glyphosate, introduced by Monsanto Company under the commercial name Roundup in 1974, became the extensively used herbicide worldwide in the last few decades. Glyphosate has excellent properties of fast sorption in soil, biodegradation and less toxicity to nontarget organisms. However, glyphosate ha...
Islam Md Meftaul, Kadiyala Venkateswarlu, Rajarathnam Dharmarajan, Prasath Annamalai et al.
values suggest that 2,4-D is highly mobile in urban soils than in agricultural soils. The calculated values of groundwater ubiquity score, leachability index, and hysteresis index indicated that the herbicide is highly prone to leach out from surface soil to groundwater which might affect the qualit...
Md Nuruzzaman, Yanju Liu, Mohammad Mahmudur Rahman, Rajarathnam Dharmarajan et al.
Biopesticides have attracted much interest in the research community and have been recommended as potentially good alternatives to synthetic pesticides. While there are issues concerning product performance, their development, especially in the area of nanotechnology, is a burgeoning area where biop...
Islam Md Meftaul, Kadiyala Venkateswarlu, Rajarathnam Dharmarajan, Prasath Annamalai et al.
) for dimethoate in the soils clearly suggest that the insecticide is prone to leaching out significantly from the soil surface to groundwater. Moreover, the surface runoff from impervious places in the urban environment can be considered as a direct source of groundwater contamination, thereby affe...