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Carla Escapa, Ricardo N. Coimbra, Teresa Neuparth, Tiago Torres, Miguel M. Santos and Marta Otero
In this work, zebrafish embryo bioassays were performed to assess the efficiency of microalgae in the removal of acetaminophen from water. Chlorella sorokiniana (CS), Chlorella vulgaris (CV) and Scenedesmus obliquus (SO) were the strains used for water t...
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Luis J. Amaro Leal, Arturo Huerta de la Peña, Ignacio Ocampo Fletes, Pedro Antonio López, Nemesio Villa-Ruano and Omar Romero-Arenas
Leafcutter ants (Atta spp.) are one of the mos t economically harmful pests in agriculture, considered dominant in the Neotropics and South America. Mature colonies of A. mexicana have a great economic impact on Mexico?s agriculture. Microbial agents in ...
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Marta Olczyk, Elisabeth H. Koschier, Tomasz Wójtowicz and Maria Pobozniak
Thrips tabaci Lind. (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) is a key pest of onions worldwide. It causes both direct and indirect damage to onion crops, resulting in high yield losses. Today, the Integrated System of Production and Plant Protection requires onion grow...
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Aleksandra Ukalska-Jaruga, Grzegorz Siebielec, Sylwia Siebielec and Monika Pecio
The aim of this study was to assess the impact of soil amendments, characterized by different sorption properties, on the effectiveness of trace elements? (Cu, Zn, Pb, Cd, Ni, and Cr) stabilization and bioavailability to earthworms. The study was conduct...
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Dokyung Kim, Tae-Yang Lee, Lia Kim, Rongxue Cui, Jin Il Kwak, Haemi Kim, Sun-Hwa Nam, Minjin Kim, Wonjae Hwang, Ji-In Kim, Seunghun Hyun and Youn-Joo An
For site-specific soil ecological risk assessments (SERAs), an integrated chemical, ecotoxicological, and ecological analysis needs to be performed. The SERA guidelines of international institutions and countries recommend that a SERA be initiated at the...
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Johana Miranda-Granados, Cesar Chacón, Nancy Ruiz-Lau, María Elena Vargas-Díaz, L. Gerardo Zepeda, Peggy Alvarez-Gutiérrez, Rocio Meza-Gordillo and Selene Lagunas-Rivera
The genus Crotalaria comprises about 600 species that are distributed throughout the tropics and subtropical regions of the world; they are antagonistic to nematodes in sustainable crop production systems, and have also shown antimicrobial capacity. Chip...
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Pablo Undurraga,Juan Hirzel,Jose Celis,Carla Perez,Marco A. Sandoval
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The use of wood residues to produce energy and steam in the pulp and paper industry generates ash waste and sewage sludge that contain nutrients for plants as a potential fertilizer. The objective of this study was to evaluate the possible toxi...
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Perumal Vivekanandhan, Raji Venkatesan, Govindaraju Ramkumar, Sengodan Karthi, Sengottayan Senthil-Nathan and Muthugoundar Subramanian Shivakumar
Botanical metabolites are increasingly realized as potential replacements to chemical insecticides. In the present study, Acacia nilotica seed essential oil and seed pod solvent extracts were tested for bioefficacy against three important types of mosqui...
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Robert Mazur, Wu Shubiao, Krzysztof Szoszkiewicz, Dawid Bedla and Agata Nowak
The paper presents a study leading to a new acute toxicity test on embryonic and juvenile organisms of the great pond snail (Lymnaea stagnalis Linnaeus). Sulfuric acid, nitric acid, and ammonium hydroxide were used as waterborne toxicants in laboratory e...
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Robert Mazur, Wu Shubiao, Krzysztof Szoszkiewicz, Dawid Bedla, Agata Nowak
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The paper presents a study leading to a new acute toxicity test on embryonic and juvenile organisms of the great pond snail (Lymnaea stagnalis Linnaeus). Sulfuric acid, nitric acid, and ammonium hydroxide were used as waterborne toxicants in laboratory e...
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Pablo Vásquez-Gassibe,Juan-Andrés Oria-de-Rueda,Luis Santos-del-Blanco,Pablo Martín-Pinto
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Aim of the study: Mycorrhizal fungi in Mediterranean forests play a key role in the complex process of recovery after wildfires. A broader understanding of an important pyrophytic species as Pinus pinaster and its fungal symbionts is thus necessary for f...
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María Elena Díaz de Villegas, Grizel Delgado, Mauricio Rivas, Esmérida Torres, Maribel Saura
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Seed bioassays are employed to determine the stimulatory effect of various biological products on the seed germination of plants used for the detection and control of toxic environmental contaminants. The objective of the present study was to design an i...
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Patrick S Michael
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A significant environmental problem is the disturbance of acid sulfate soils which contain high amounts of sulfuric acid or have the potential to form it, resulting in pollution of the environment due to mobilization of toxic metals into soil and water s...
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Yuzhe Du, Shane Scheibener, Justin George, Narayanan Kannan and Maribel Portilla
The tarnished plant bug, Lygus lineolaris, and the red-banded stink bug, Piezodorus guildinii, pose significant economic threats to cotton and soybean crops in the mid-southern USA. However, the efficacy of insecticide spraying is comparatively low, and ...
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Manuela Piccardo, Francesca Provenza, Serena Anselmi, Andrea Broccoli, Antonio Terlizzi and Monia Renzi
Cigarette butts (CBs) are among the dominant constituents of marine and beach litter. Few studies have been conducted, and the environmental effects of CBs on marine species are still poorly understood. This study aims to evaluate the ecotoxicological ef...
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Waleed S. Alwaneen, Waqas Wakil, Nickolas G. Kavallieratos, Mirza Abdul Qayyum, Muhammad Tahir, Khawaja G. Rasool, Mureed Husain, Abdulrahman S. Aldawood and David Shapiro-Ilan
The red palm weevil (RPW), Rhynchophorus ferrugineus (Olivier) (Coleoptera: Dryophthoridae), is a destructive and voracious pest of palm species worldwide. Due to environmental and regulatory concerns, ecologically safe alternatives to synthetic chemical...
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Giuseppina Iacomino, Mohamed Idbella, Alessia Staropoli, Bruno Nanni, Tomaso Bertoli, Francesco Vinale and Giuliano Bonanomi
Wood vinegar is a by-product of the pyrolysis of organic raw materials. In this study, we investigated the chemical composition and biological activity of industrial wood vinegar derived from the pyrolysis of wood pruning waste. The composition of wood v...
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Jeong-Gyu Bak, Woochul Hwang, Jinsoo Cho
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Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is a popular tool in the water industry for assessing ultraviolet (UV) reactor performance. However, due to the size of open-channel-type UV reactor systems, the CFD model requires significant computational time. Thus, ...
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Nancy Vitta, Patricia Estay, Rodrigo A. Chorbadjian
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Two studies were conducted with the aim of characterizing the antixenosis and antibiosis resistance expression of genotypes in the Solanum section Lycopersicon against Tuta absoluta (Meyrick). The species used were S. lycopersicum (Fiorentino, Naomi and ...
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Tsuyoshi Ikehara and Naomasa Oshiro
Okadaic acids (OAs) are causative agents of diarrhetic shellfish poisoning, produced by the dinoflagellates Dinophysis spp. and Prorocentrum spp. Microcystins (MCs) are cyclic heptapeptide hepatotoxins produced by some cyanobacteria genera, including Mic...
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