Addressing chemical pollution in biodiversity research

Global Change Biology, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 29(12), P. 3240 - 3255

Published: March 21, 2023

Abstract Climate change, biodiversity loss, and chemical pollution are planetary‐scale emergencies requiring urgent mitigation actions. As these “triple crises” deeply interlinked, they need to be tackled in an integrative manner. However, while climate change often studied together, as a global factor contributing worldwide loss has received much less attention research so far. Here, we review evidence showing that the multifaceted effects of anthropogenic chemicals environment posing growing threat ecosystems. Therefore, failure account for may significantly undermine success protection efforts. We argue progress understanding counteracting negative impact on requires collective efforts scientists from different disciplines, including but not limited ecology, ecotoxicology, environmental chemistry. Importantly, recent developments fields have now enabled comprehensive studies could efficiently address manifold interactions between Based their experience with intricate biodiversity, ecologists well equipped embrace additional challenge complexity through interdisciplinary collaborations. This offers unique opportunity jointly advance seminal frontier ecology facilitate development innovative solutions protection.

Language: Английский

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Ecosystem consequences of herbicides: the role of microbiome

Trends in Ecology & Evolution, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 38(1), P. 35 - 43

Published: Oct. 13, 2022

Non-target organisms are globally exposed to herbicides. While many herbicides - for example, glyphosate were initially considered safe, increasing evidence demonstrates that they have profound effects on ecosystem functions via altered microbial communities. We provide a comprehensive framework how herbicide residues may modulate ecosystem-level outcomes alteration of microbiomes. The changes in soil microbiome likely influence key nutrient cycling and plant-soil processes. Herbicide-altered affects plant animal performance can trophic interactions such as herbivory pollination. These expected lead even evolutionary consequences both microbes hosts. Tackling the threats caused by agrochemicals services requires tools solutions based understanding microbe-mediated risks.

Language: Английский

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Microbiome Interconnectedness throughout Environments with Major Consequences for Healthy People and a Healthy Planet

Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 87(3)

Published: June 27, 2023

Microbiomes have highly important roles for ecosystem functioning and carry out key functions that support planetary health, including nutrient cycling, climate regulation, water filtration. are also intimately associated with complex multicellular organisms such as humans, other animals, plants, insects perform crucial the health of their hosts. Although we starting to understand microbiomes in different systems interconnected, there is still a poor understanding microbiome transfer connectivity. In this review show how connected within transferred between habitats discuss functional consequences these connections. Microbiome occurs abiotic (e.g., air, soil, water) biotic environments, can either be mediated through vectors or food) direct interactions. Such processes may include transmission pathogens antibiotic resistance genes. However, here, highlight fact positive effects on human where transmitted microorganisms potentially providing novel adaptation ecosystems.

Language: Английский

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Terrestrial ecotoxicity of glyphosate, its formulations, and co-formulants: evidence from 2010–2023

Environmental Sciences Europe, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 35(1)

Published: July 8, 2023

Abstract Glyphosate (GLY), the most widely used herbicide in world, is frequently detected various environmental matrices, including soil, foundation of agriculture. In practice, more than 2000 GLY-based (GBH) products are used, consisting one or active ingredients (AIs) and so-called “inert” co-formulants that increase efficacy AIs. However, focus ecotoxicological assessments mainly on AIs, while organisms exposed to complex pesticide formulations under real-world conditions. Overall, effects non-target indicate a broad range biochemical physiological modes action, which contrasts with general assumption herbicides specific act only target plants. Both GLY alone GBHs have unintended side-effects many terrestrial organisms, plants, microorganisms, insects, spiders, earthworms, as well vertebrates such amphibians, reptiles, mammals. One triggering mechanisms for these oxidative stress consequences parameters DNA damage. addition, disruptions physiological, behavioral ecological processes been reported. Most studies examined short-term single application GLY/GBH species. agricultural practice applying two three times during cultivation season over an extended period time, interactions other pesticides agrochemicals applied same field, within field landscape rarely considered. vast majority cases, toxicity exceeds GLY, demonstrating supposedly inert either toxic their own right interact add The chemical diversity different non-disclosure make it difficult attribute substances GBH. Moreover, impurities (e.g., heavy metals arsenic, chromium, cobalt) pose additional environment food safety risks. These impacts even critical because so distributed worldwide pollutants stressors. Based available literature ecotoxicity, given drastic decline biodiversity, we conclude continued high use GBHs, resulting increased exposure risk, cannot be considered ecologically sustainable.

Language: Английский

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Can foliar application of soluble monoammonium phosphate effectively alleviate herbicide-induced oxidative stress in key crops?

Frontiers in Plant Science, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 16

Published: Feb. 28, 2025

Phosphorus (P) and nitrogen (N) directly impact final crop productivity by playing essential roles in photosynthesis, ATP formation, carbon assimilation, cell division, transport. Compared with nutrient application to soil, the nutrients are applied leaves provides a faster response because enter plant metabolism more quickly. Foliar fertilization nutritional supplements can intend increase yields, little is known about its ability reduce oxidative stress. This study evaluated effects of foliar on recovery from phytotoxicity induced herbicide exposure. Phytotoxicity was soybean, maize, cotton plants applying carfentrazone-ethyl (at V 3 , 4 growth stages, respectively), which induces accumulation reactive oxygen species cytoplasm, leading membrane rupture appearance chlorotic spots leaves. induction followed monoammonium phosphate (MAP) as source N P. Leaf content, gas exchange performance, pigment photosynthetic enzyme activity, antioxidant metabolism, stress, proline metabolite biometric parameters were evaluated. MAP supplementation increased chlorophyll RuBisCO activity up 20.5% (maize) 16.2% (cotton), respectively, resulting higher net rates (26.3%; cotton), stomatal conductance (45.7%; water use efficiency (35.6%; carboxylation (45%; cotton). The activities enzymes also increased, concentrations stress indicators decreased (H 2 O : 33.7% MDA: 28.3%; soybean). Furthermore, all three crops suggesting that an efficient strategy for attenuating symptoms crops.

Language: Английский

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Bioprospecting culturable and unculturable microbial consortia through metagenomics for bioremediation

Cleaner Chemical Engineering, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 2, P. 100017 - 100017

Published: April 6, 2022

With the enormous increase in population and industrial network, harmful pollutants affecting biota have also escalated. The are consumed by living organisms directly or indirectly reducing animal economic wellbeing. degradation of contaminants is imperative owing to prolonged persistence like plastics, heavy metals, pesticides, dyes, pharmaceuticals, hydrocarbons. Remediation such requires efficient methods prevent mobilizing-contaminants leaching into soil finally human beings. In this regard, metagenomics (MGs), a non-culturable technique, involving direct recovery genetic material from environmental samples an effective tool for understanding remediation process mediated microorganisms their gene products enzymes. MGs offers gateway previously hidden microbial communities grown normal extreme environment through sequence-based function-based approaches. culture-independent approach combination with other meta-omics approaches involves easy rapid method selection remediation-efficient microbes. This paper elucidates negative implications several on terrestrial aquatic besides highlighting role associated characterizing contaminant degrading research related bioremediation can help generate information that will improve aid deciphering complete microbe-mediated mechanism pathways. future be helpful comprehensively understand mechanisms involved bioremediation, develop new strategies models application rapid, accurate optimize technique. Furthermore, determine diversity specific genes act as pollution biomarkers.

Language: Английский

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Does Glyphosate Affect the Human Microbiota?

Life, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 12(5), P. 707 - 707

Published: May 9, 2022

Glyphosate is the world's most widely used agrochemical. Its use in agriculture and gardening has been proclaimed safe because humans other animals do not have target enzyme 5-enolpyruvylshikimate-3-phosphate synthase (EPSPS). However, increasing numbers of studies demonstrated risks to shikimate metabolic pathway present many microbes. Here, we assess potential effect glyphosate on healthy human microbiota. Our results demonstrate that more than one-half microbiome are intrinsically sensitive glyphosate. further empirical needed determine

Language: Английский

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Glyphosate Disorders Soil Enchytraeid Gut Microbiota and Increases Its Antibiotic Resistance Risk

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 72(4), P. 2089 - 2099

Published: Jan. 18, 2024

Pesticides promote the stable development of intensive global agriculture. Nevertheless, their residues in soil can cause ecological and human health risks. Glyphosate is a popular herbicide generally thought to be ecologically safe nontoxic, but this conclusion has been questioned. Herein, we investigated interaction among fauna (Enchytraeus crypticus) exposed glyphosate found that induced oxidative stress detoxification responses E. crypticus disturbed lipid metabolism digestive systems. We further demonstrated disordered gut microbiota increased abundance resistance determinants with significant Empirical tests structural equation models were then used confirm could generate reactive oxygen species, indirectly interfering microbiota. Our study provides important implications for deciphering mechanisms ecotoxicity pesticides under challenge worldwide pesticide contamination.

Language: Английский

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Impact of glyphosate (Roundup ^TM ) on the composition and functionality of the gut microbiome

Gut Microbes, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 15(2)

Published: Oct. 6, 2023

Glyphosate, the active ingredient in broad-spectrum herbicide RoundupTM, has been a topic of discussion for decades due to contradictory reports effect glyphosate on human health. Glyphosate inhibits enzyme 5-enolpyruvylshikimate-3-phosphate synthase (EPSPS) shikimic pathway producing aromatic amino acids plants, mechanism that suggests would not affect humans as this is found mammals. However, numerous studies have implicated exposure manifestation variety disorders body. This review specifically outlines potential composition and functionality gut microbiome. Evidence building behind hypothesis each individual microbiota significantly impacts For reason, inhibit growth beneficial microbes or alter their an important warrants further consideration.

Language: Английский

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Pesticides and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in honey and Apis mellifera from the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico

Journal of Food Composition and Analysis, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 132, P. 106293 - 106293

Published: May 6, 2024

Language: Английский

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