Application Progress of Chromatographic Analytical Methods in Agriculture
A special issue of Agriculture (ISSN 2077-0472). This special issue belongs to the section "Agricultural Product Quality and Safety".
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Special Issue Editors
Interests: pesticide residues in plant/animal products and environmental samples; analytical methods; environmental monitoring; pesticides; contaminants; method validation; chromatography; mass spectrometry; risk assessment
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Interests: gas and liquid chromatography; tandem mass spectrometry; plant protection products; pesticide residues; plant metabolites; volatile compounds
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Analytical Chemistry and particularly chromatographic analytical methods play a key role for the attainment of the UN Sustainable Development Goals that are directly or indirectly connected to Agriculture since the solution to any problem demands knowledge of the existing situation.
Chromatographic applications involve either target analysis, i.e., the development and validation of methods for the determination of known compounds, or non-targeted analysis, i.e., methods aiming at characterizing the chemical composition of complex samples, identifying unknown compounds, and/or classifying samples, without prior knowledge regarding the chemical content of the samples. Pesticide residues, heavy metals, xenobiotic compounds and other chemical substances are monitored and regulated by legislation in samples of plant origin, water, soil, air, and other agricultural by-products, as to safeguard an acceptable potential risk for human health, food safety and the environment.
Contamination of the agro-environment with pollutants applied or produced through agricultural practices, smart agriculture for food quality, determination of plant metabolites aiming to detect and/or measure plant responses under particular conditions, or confirmation of alternative approaches of agricultural practices are examples of the sectors of Agriculture in which analytical methods can applied.
This Special Issue aims to cover the wide scope of chromatographic analytical methods applied in all sectors of agriculture and include interdisciplinary studies embracing agriculture with disciplines of chemistry, biology, and engineering. Research articles are expected to cover various sample preparation procedures, chromatographic and detection techniques. Detected compounds (including metabolites, degradation products, co-formulants, impurities and volatile compounds, etc) and tested substrates can be of great variance.
All types of articles, such as original research, opinions, and reviews are welcome.
Dr. Eleftheria Bempelou
Dr. George Balayiannis
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- analytical methods
- chromatography
- pesticides
- pollutants
- agro-environment
- metabolites
- target/non-target analysis
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