Groundwater co-contamination with toxic pollutants like arsenic-fluoride or lead-fluoride is a serious threat for safe rice cultivation, since major stretches of land, involved in cultivation of this staple food crop are presently experiencing severe endemic pollution from these xenobiotic...

Increased ozone is linked to increases an air pollution, causing a wide range of impacts that will affect ecology. Ozone, a secondary pollutant, produced via photochemical reaction between NOX, CO, CH4 and VOCs with sunlight. Further, the increasing of ozone trends significant in the most of...

Modern rice cultivation relies on chemical nitrogen (N) fertilizer that ultimately degrades soil health and creates environmental pollution. The increasing concerns about environmental pollution, restoring soil health, and conservation of energy, public attention is now towards green manures as...

The mutual influences of C₆₀ fullerene (C₆₀) and heavy metal ions (Cd, Cu, and Pb) on the uptake, transportation, and accumulation of these coexisting pollutants in four rice cultivars planted in agricultural soil were investigated during the whole life cycle of rice. The biomass of the rice plants ...

Organic pollutants are widely detected in surface water, groundwater and irrigation sewage in farmland soil, some of which can form complexes with heavy metal ions as ligands in the environment. Acesulfame (ACE), one of the most popular artificial sweeteners, has been found in wastewater sometimes...

Ozone is an important air pollutant that affects growth, transpiration, and water use efficiency (WUE) in plants. Integrated models of photosynthesis (A_n) and stomatal conductance (G_s) (A_n-G_s) are useful tools to consistently assess the impacts of ozone on plant growth, transpiration, and WUE....

Water-saving irrigation (WSI) is a promising management practice for sustainable rice production. Shallow-wet irrigation (SWI), controlled irrigation (CI), intermittent irrigation (II), and rain-gathering irrigation (RGI) are four common WSI regimes used in China. Their water saving, pollutant...

Arsenic (As) and antimony (Sb) are considered as priority environmental pollutants and their accumulation in crop plants particularly in rice has posed a great health risk. This study endeavored to investigate As and Sb contents in paired soil-rice samples obtained from Xikuangshan, the world...

In many countries, the farmers find open burning is the cheapest and easiest way for removing large loads of the produced rice straw causing environmental pollution. So, finding a sustainable rice straw management system is need of the hour. In modern hybrid electricity generation systems, the use ...

Pollutants have a tendency to sequestrate into remote sites in different environmental matrices thereby reducing the level of available fraction for uptake in living organisms. We examined availability of metals by subjecting soil and rice plant samples from Ishiagu mining district to a sequential...