Monitoring Pesticides in Antimicrobial Resistance Era and Sustainable Agriculture

Dear Colleagues,

Although the concept of sustainable agriculture through using green technologies to reduce the use of chemical inputs in agriculture is encouraged, it is still hard to avoid using pesticides in promoting the production of commercial crops in climate change conditions. Some pesticides are still permitted to be used and some have high persistence in agroecosystems and consequently cause adverse impacts on environmental health. Numerous studies have also revealed that pesticides are among the xenobiotics that evolve antimicrobial resistance traits in the exposed microbial population. Hence, introducing various biotechnological approaches as alternatives to using pesticides and reducing the use of pesticides should be prioritized. On the other hand, if the use of pesticides is unavoidable, the environmental fate and ecotoxicity of such pesticides should be investigated beforehand, and the precise effective doses and ecological risk assessment require a standard application and recommendation. For the pesticides that are legacy pollutants, advanced knowledge and technology are needed to remediate their polluted environments and recirculate the effective land use for agriculture.

This Special Issue provides a platform to exchange and update our new insights into the link between pesticides and antimicrobial resistance problem, environmental fate, risk assessment and ecotoxicity of pesticides, biotechnological alternatives to reduce the use of pesticides, and transformation of pesticides together with the remediation technologies/approaches for the restoration of the pesticide-polluted environment. All types of articles that fall within the above research areas are welcome.

Dr. Rungroch Sungthong
Dr. Imfeld Gwenael
Guest Editors

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