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...
Aney Parven, Islam Md Meftaul, Kadiyala Venkateswarlu, Mallavarapu Megharaj
Abstract Herbicides play a crucial role in modern agriculture by controlling weeds and ensuring sustainable crop productivity. However, the use of herbicides has raised concerns regarding their contamination, posing serious threat to the environment, biodiversity, and food safety. Recent trends indi...
Kartik Dhar, Suresh R. Subashchandrabose, Kadiyala Venkateswarlu, Kannan Krishnan et al.
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are a class of hazardous organic contaminants that are widely distributed in nature, and many of them are potentially toxic to humans and other living organisms. Biodegradation is the major route of detoxification and removal of PAHs from the environment. Aero...
Aney Parven, Md. Sirajul Islam Khan, Mohammad Dalower Hossain Prodhan, Kadiyala Venkateswarlu et al.
Islam Md Meftaul, Kadiyala Venkateswarlu, Prasath Annamalai, Aney Parven et al.
This novel study investigated the fate and distribution in soils, and potential exposure risk of glyphosate, an extensively used herbicide in urban landscapes. The rate-determining step of glyphosate sorption in urban soils involved chemisorption processes through exchange or sharing of electrons th...
Kartik Dhar, Kadiyala Venkateswarlu, Mallavarapu Megharaj
The extraordinary metabolic flexibility of anoxygenic phototrophic purple non-sulfur bacteria (PNSB) has been exploited in the development of various biotechnological applications, such as wastewater treatment, biohydrogen production, improvement of soil fertility and plant growth, and recovery of h...
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...
Islam Md Meftaul, Kadiyala Venkateswarlu, Prasath Annamalai, Aney Parven et al.
Abstract Pesticides are the most cost-effective means of pest control; however, the serious concern is about the non-target effects due to their extensive and intensive use in both agricultural and non-agricultural settings. The degradation rate constant ( k ) and half-life (DT 50 ) of four commonly...
Islam Md Meftaul, Kadiyala Venkateswarlu, Aney Parven, Prasath Annamalai et al.
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...
Aney Parven, Islam Md Meftaul, Kadiyala Venkateswarlu, Saianand Gopalan et al.
Abstract We determined the distribution, fate, and health hazards of dimethenamid-P, metazachlor, and pyroxasulfone, the effective pre-emergence herbicides widely used both in urban and agricultural settings globally. The rate-determining phase of sorption kinetics of these herbicides in five soils ...
Aney Parven, Islam Md Meftaul, Kadiyala Venkateswarlu, Mallavarapu Megharaj
Abstract Herbicides are widely recognized as the most cost-effective solution for weed control, but their extensive use in both urban and agricultural settings raise serious concerns about nontarget effects. We assessed the possible hazards associated with pre-emergence herbicides such as dimethenam...
Islam Md Meftaul, Kadiyala Venkateswarlu, Prasath Annamalai, Aney Parven et al.
This novel study investigated the behavior and fate of chlorothalonil in terms of kinetics, sorption‒desorption and leaching potential in urban landscape soils using batch experiments. The pseudo-second-order model well described the sorption kinetics of chlorothalonil in urban soils. Consequently, ...
Aney Parven, Islam Md Meftaul, Kadiyala Venkateswarlu, Andrea Carpio Segovia et al.
Pre-emergence herbicide residues in pea cultivation can pose significant health risks to nontarget organisms, including humans. To assess the impact of these residues on soil and human health, garden peas were grown in an agricultural soil (MAT) and potting mix (POM) treated with dimethenamid-P, met...