Exploring the Interplay of Agriculture, Analytical Chemistry, Environments and Toxics

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Dear Colleagues,

The interaction between agriculture, analytical chemistry, environments, and toxic products represents a search for knowledge, innovation, and management that has profound implications for the future of global food security, environmental sustainability, and public health. With the analysis and monitoring of soils, water, and food, we can work towards sustainable and safe agricultural practices that benefit both the environment and human health, enabling the optimization and development of crops, and thus minimizing the impact of harmful chemicals. In this sense, aspects of fundamental and applied analytical chemistry unite traditional disciplines within chemistry, between chemistry and neighboring disciplines. This favors the gathering of information of interest across the broader chemical and scientific community, enabling the conduction of advanced studies related to all aspects of chemicals and toxic materials, as well as instrumental and methodological techniques, such as chromatography and hyphenated instruments, the pre-treatment and extraction of samples, and electroanalysis in applications in analytical, environmental, biological, clinical/pharmaceutical, and industrial contexts. Thus, the central role of chemistry today is to enable and encourage the scientific community to publish their innovative experimental, theoretical, and practical results in a variety of areas and interfaces ranging from health, food, risk assessment, human exposure, toxic chemicals, environmental system monitoring, and experimental approaches to characterize exposure in different media.

Dr. Bruno Lemos Batista
Dr. Tatiana Pedron
Dr. Camila Neves Lange
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Participating Journals

Journal Name	Impact Factor	CiteScore	Launched Year	First Decision (median)	APC
Agriculture agriculture	3.3	4.9	2011	20.2 Days	CHF 2600	Submit
Analytica analytica	-	1.8	2020	12.8 Days	CHF 1000	Submit
Chemistry chemistry	2.4	3.2	2019	13.4 Days	CHF 1800	Submit
Environments environments	3.5	5.7	2014	25.7 Days	CHF 1800	Submit
Journal of Xenobiotics jox	6.8	5.3	2011	30 Days	CHF 1600	Submit

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Investigating Grape Seed Extract as a Natural Antibacterial Agent for Water Disinfection in Saudi Arabia: A Pilot Chemical, Phytochemical, Heavy-Metal, Mineral, and CB-Dock Study Employing Water and Urine Samples

by Shifa Felemban and Asmaa Fathi Hamouda

Chemistry 2024, 6(5), 852-898; https://doi.org/10.3390/chemistry6050051 - 1 Sep 2024

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Microorganisms remain in water from various sources after desalination and other treatments, posing health risks. We explored alternative natural disinfection agents, focusing on grape seed extract (GSE). We collected local grape seeds in Saudi Arabia and analyzed their chemical components. Using gas chromatography–mass [...] Read more.

Microorganisms remain in water from various sources after desalination and other treatments, posing health risks. We explored alternative natural disinfection agents, focusing on grape seed extract (GSE). We collected local grape seeds in Saudi Arabia and analyzed their chemical components. Using gas chromatography–mass spectrometry and inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry, we identified essential phytochemicals in the GSE, including polyphenols, flavonoids, and alkaloids. Notably, the GSE was free from bacteria and heavy-metal contamination and rich in beneficial nutrient metals. We conducted qualitative analyses on local water and urine samples to detect bacterial infections, heavy metals, and minerals. To assess GSE’s antibacterial potential, we performed molecular docking analysis. Our results reveal a strong binding energy between GSE and bacterial protein receptors, parallel to that of standard antibiotics. Additionally, the results of the laboratory pilot investigations align with those of computational analyses, confirming GSE’s efficacy. Agar well diffusion tests demonstrated significantly greater zones of inhibition for the crude oil extract compared with both diluted GSE and the positive control against the bacteria detected in the water and urine samples. Furthermore, we identified contamination by four bacterial strains and heavy metals in water samples and female urine samples, highlighting the need for effective water disinfectants. GSE shows promise as a safe and potent natural water disinfectant. Full article

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The Impact of Maize Legume Intercropping on Energy Indices and GHG Emissions as a Result of Climate Change

by Kęstutis Romaneckas, Austėja Švereikaitė, Rasa Kimbirauskienė, Aušra Sinkevičienė, Aida Adamavičienė and Algirdas Jasinskas

Agriculture 2024, 14(8), 1303; https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture14081303 - 7 Aug 2024

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Multicropping can solve energy use and GHG balance problems, but the emergence, development, and productivity of such mixed crops are at risk due to the uneven distribution of precipitation. For this reason, investigations were performed at the Experimental Station of Vytautas Magnus University, [...] Read more.

Multicropping can solve energy use and GHG balance problems, but the emergence, development, and productivity of such mixed crops are at risk due to the uneven distribution of precipitation. For this reason, investigations were performed at the Experimental Station of Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania. Single maize crops were compared with Crimson/red clover, Persian clover, and alfalfa intercropped maize. The objective of this study was to evaluate the main energy indices and GHG balance of legume intercropped maize cultivated in humid and arid vegetative conditions. The results showed that, under arid conditions, the quantity of intercrop biomass was about four times lower than that under humid conditions. Humid conditions were less suitable for maize and resulted in about 3–5 t ha⁻¹ less dried biomass from intercrops and about 6 t ha⁻¹ less biomass in single crops than in arid conditions. Due to the higher yield of maize biomass in the arid season, better energy indicators of crops were obtained in arid than humid conditions. The difference between net energy was about 122–123 MJ ha⁻¹ in all treatments, except for the maize crop with intercropped alfalfa, where the difference was 62 MJ ha⁻¹. All tested technologies were environmentally friendly; the CO₂ equivalent varied between treatments from 804 to 884 kg ha⁻¹. The uneven distribution of precipitation during the vegetative season provides insight into the improvement of intercropping technologies. Sowing intercrops at the same time as maize could improve their germination but increase the problem of weed spread. Full article

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