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Herbicide Use: Effects on the Agricultural Environment
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Herbicide Use: Effects on the Agricultural Environment

A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Weed Science and Weed Management".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2025 | Viewed by 911

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Edson Santos

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Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Federal University of Uberlândia, Uberlândia, MG, Brazil
Interests: agronomy; weed control; herbicides; integrated crop–livestock–forestry systems; conservation agriculture; plant protection; agricultural development; soil and water conservation
Prof. Dr. Claudinei Da Cruz

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Centro Universitário da Fundação Educacional de Barretos, Barretos, SP, Brazil
Interests: ecotoxicology; bioindicators; pesticide; environmental monitoring

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Herbicides have been very important to societal development, allowing us to produce food, fiber, and energy for more than eight billion people. These products are developed with great care and quality to be distributed on plants or soil, penetrate plant cells, block plant enzymes, and compromise the metabolism of weeds. These products’ ability to remain biologically stable and affect weeds may be related to environmental damage. Indeed, as science advances, much has been published about the ecological damage that herbicides can cause. Currently, agriculture if fundamentally dependent on the environment, and this is of importance, especially given the data on global warming, partly related to agricultural production.

The environmental damage caused by herbicides is sometimes unknown or unmeasured, and these products can often be misapplied, making application technology science deeply related to environmental protection. Other factors strongly affecting herbicides’ behavior in the environment are the physical and chemical characteristics of the products, environmental conditions, water source protection practices, and tank mixtures.

In this issue, we invite researchers to submit original scientific or review articles related to the above topics, including information on strategies to avoid, mitigate, or remedy the environmental damage caused by herbicides.

Dr. Edson Santos
Prof. Dr. Claudinei Da Cruz
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • environmental pollution
  • environmental risks
  • herbicide application technology
  • bioremediation
  • phytoremediation
  • water quality
  • weed control
  • wildlife protection

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An Efficient Method for Detoxification of Organophosphorous Pesticide-Contaminated Soil with Ozonation in Fluidized Bed Reactor
by Piotr Antos, Barbara Szyller, Maciej Balawejder, Radosław Józefczyk and Karolina Kowalczyk
Agronomy 2025, 15(2), 304; https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy15020304 - 25 Jan 2025
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Pesticides, essential for controlling pests and weeds, significantly boost agricultural productivity. However, their excessive use leads to substantial contamination of environmental matrices, including soil and water. Organophosphorus compounds, which constitute more than 30% of the global use of insecticides and herbicides, are particularly [...] Read more.
Pesticides, essential for controlling pests and weeds, significantly boost agricultural productivity. However, their excessive use leads to substantial contamination of environmental matrices, including soil and water. Organophosphorus compounds, which constitute more than 30% of the global use of insecticides and herbicides, are particularly concerning, and their widespread application raises alarms among environmentalists and regulatory agencies due to their high toxicity to aquatic organisms. Therefore, to avoid the spread of these compounds within the environment, the contaminated sites may be treated with various methods. This study explored a soil detoxification procedure utilizing gaseous ozone. As a representative of organophosphorus pesticides, chlorfenvinphos was utilized as soil contaminant. This compound is still reported to occur in a number of environmental matrixes. The method used in this study involved the exposure of the soil matrix in a fluidized state to an ozone-enriched atmosphere. The ozonation procedure enabled the removal of the pesticide from the soil matrix. During its oxidation, some degradation products were detected; in particular, they included 2,4-dichlorobenzoic acid and 2-chloro-1-(2,4-dichloro-phenyl)-ethanone, whose presence was confirmed by a GC-MS system and the NIST database. However, they also underwent degradation. Moreover, on the basis of stereoselective reaction of Z and E isomers, the pesticide degradation pathway was proposed. Additionally, the efficacy of this detoxication method was evaluated using a combination of chronic and acute toxicity tests, employing Eisenia foetida earthworms as bioindicators. On the basis of the obtained results, it can be concluded that organophosphorus herbicides containing unsaturated bonds in their structure, including glyphosate, can be removed using this method. Full article
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