Antibiotics are considered one of the greatest advances of medicine and, in addition to their
use in treating a wide spectrum of illnesses, they have been widely employed to promote …

There is growing concern among health institutions worldwide to supply clean water to their
populations, especially to more vulnerable communities. Although sewage treatment …

The herbicide glyphosate interferes with the shikimate pathway in plants and in major
groups of microorganisms impeding the production of aromatic amino acids. Glyphosate …

The extensive use of ciprofloxacin (CIP) poses a great threat to aquatic ecosystem, due to its
potentially serious inhibitory effect on the microbial activity and low natural degradation rate …

The increasing use of antibiotics in animal production has become an emergent
environmental problem. The large percentages of applied antibiotic doses eliminated in …

Since the introduction of glyphosate (N-(phosphomethyl) glycine) in 1974, it has been the
most used nonselective and broad-spectrum herbicide around the world. The widespread …

Emerging contaminants (ECs) are chemicals occurring naturally or by anthropogenic
activities that have the possibility to go through the environment and pose detrimental …

Pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) ubiquitously occur in the
environment, resulting in detrimental effects on human health and other organisms. With the …

With the increasing use of veterinary antibiotics, quinolone antibiotics may enter farmland
systems after livestock manure has been composted. However, the phytotoxicity mechanism …

Rhizosphere microbiota are an important factor impacting plant uptake of pollutants.
However, little is known about how microbial nitrogen (N) transformation in the rhizosphere …