From fruit waste to hydrogels for agricultural applications

A Adi Sulianto, IP Adiyaksa, Y Wibisono, E Khan… - Clean …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Here, we describe and assess a method for reusing specific food waste to make hydrogels,
which can be employed to improve the efficacy of agrochemicals and water. It represents an …

Removal of picloram herbicide from an aqueous environment using polymer inclusion membranes

AJ Mwakalesi, ID Potter - Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The picloram (4-amino-3, 5, 6-trichloro-2-pyridinecarboxylic acid) herbicide is
widely applied to control the growth of woody plants and it has been frequently detected in …

Toxicological evaluation of the herbicide Palace® in Drosophila melanogaster

MB Leão, DF Gonçalves, GM Miranda… - Journal of Toxicology …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Drosophila melanogaster is a suitable model for toxicological studies of environmental
pollutants including pesticides, which are known to produce adverse effects on the …