Does organically produced lettuce harbor higher abundance of antibiotic resistance genes than conventionally produced?

B Zhu, Q Chen, S Chen, YG Zhu - Environment international, 2017 - Elsevier
The demand for organic food products, especially for organic vegetables has been growing
rapidly in the last few decades. However, the risk of introducing more antibiotic resistant …

Animal manures application increases the abundances of antibiotic resistance genes in soil-lettuce system associated with shared bacterial distributions

J Huang, J Mi, Q Yan, X Wen, S Zhou, Y Wang… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
An increasing amount of animal manures is being used in agriculture, and the effect of
animal manures application on the abundance of antibiotics resistance genes (ARGs) in soil …

[HTML][HTML] Transfer of antibiotic resistance from manure-amended soils to vegetable microbiomes

YJ Zhang, HW Hu, QL Chen, BK Singh, H Yan… - Environment …, 2019 - Elsevier
The increasing antimicrobial resistance in manure-amended soil can potentially enter food
chain, representing an important vehicle for antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) transmission …

Diversity and abundance of antibiotic resistance genes in rhizosphere soil and endophytes of leafy vegetables: Focusing on the effect of the vegetable species

Y Guo, T Qiu, M Gao, Y Sun, S Cheng, H Gao… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2021 - Elsevier
Antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in the endophytes of vegetables represent a potential
route of human exposure to the soil resistome. However, the effect of vegetable species on …

[HTML][HTML] The dynamics and transmission of antibiotic resistance associated with plant microbiomes

P Chen, K Yu, Y He - Environment International, 2023 - Elsevier
Antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) have been widely found and studied in soil and water
environments. However, the propagation of ARGs in plant microbiomes has attracted …

Distribution of antibiotic resistance genes in soils and crops. A field study in legume plants (Vicia faba L.) grown under different watering regimes

F Cerqueira, V Matamoros, J Bayona, G Elsinga… - Environmental …, 2019 - Elsevier
Social concern has raised during the last years due to the development of antibiotic
resistance hotspots in different environmental compartments, including the edible parts of …

Bacterial community assembly and antibiotic resistance genes in the lettuce-soil system upon antibiotic exposure

Y Shen, ET Ryser, H Li, W Zhang - Science of the Total Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
Bacteria and antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in vegetables may influence human gut
microbiome and ultimately human health. However, little is known about how vegetable …

Field-based evidence for enrichment of antibiotic resistance genes and mobile genetic elements in manure-amended vegetable soils

X Zhao, J Wang, L Zhu, J Wang - Science of the Total Environment, 2019 - Elsevier
The increasing prevalence of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) and antibiotic resistant
bacteria (ARB) in the soil environment represents a serious threat to public health. In this …

Antibiotic resistance gene distribution in agricultural fields and crops. A soil-to-food analysis

F Cerqueira, V Matamoros, JM Bayona… - Environmental …, 2019 - Elsevier
Despite the social concern about the generalization of antibiotic resistance hotspots
worldwide, very little is known about the contribution of different potential sources to the …

Application of biosolids drives the diversity of antibiotic resistance genes in soil and lettuce at harvest

L Yang, W Liu, D Zhu, J Hou, T Ma, L Wu, Y Zhu… - Soil Biology and …, 2018 - Elsevier
High-throughput quantitative polymerase chain reaction (PCR) of antibiotic resistance genes
(ARGs) was used to profile the composition and diversity of ARGs in biosolid-amended soil …