We recently isolated a Pseudomonas sp. strain W15Feb9B from Ochlockonee River, Florida and demonstrated potent biodegradative activity against two commonly used pesticides - Alachlor [(2-chloro-2',6'-diethylphenyl-N (methoxymethyl)acetanilide)] and Endosulfan [(6,7,8,9,10,10-hexachloro-1,5,5a,6,9,9a-hexahydro-6,9methano-2,3,4-benzo(e)di-oxathiepin-3-oxide], respectively. To further identify the...

Pesticides applied on crops are leached with rainfall to groundwater and surface water. They threat the aquatic environment and may render water unfit for human consumption. Pesticide partitioning is one of the pesticide fate processes in the environment that should be properly formalised in pesticide fate models. Based on the analysis of 7 pesticide molecules (alachlor, atrazine, atrazine's tr...

During 2017 the herbicides alachlor, atrazine, butachlor, metolachlor, and simazine were detected in water samples, beach sediments marine biota collected at Camps Bay, Cape Town, South Africa. that period, annual rain catchment record was 77,000 m3, whereas volume of chemically laden sewage discharged via outfall 693,500 m3 making by far most predominant source for these bay. The chemical load...

Under pressure from existing and emerging contaminants, lotic ecosystems are becoming increasingly susceptible to ecological deterioration. Therefore, investigations of the impacts persistent organic pollutants (POPs) heavy metals on riverine fish health, water quality, biotic integrity critical. We examined effects 52 POPs health land use, based monitoring assemblages river quality 2007 2014. ...

Titania graphene hybrid nanocomposites (TiO2-FLG) synthesized from graphite and TiO2 precursors, in a simple sustainable approach via three-step method, including the mechanochemical treatment of pre-synthesized FLG NPs are efficient has led to preparation TiO2-FLG as nano-catalysts for photocatalytic degradation complex mixing pesticides (isoproturon, pyrimethanil, alachlor methomyl). The effe...