Contaminants in Agriculture: Sources, Impacts and Management - Softcover

SECTION-A: OVERVIEW OF CONTAMINANTS IN AGRICULTURE

Chapter 01: Organic and Inorganic Fertilizer Contaminants in Agriculture: Impact on Soil and Water Resources

I.Rashmi¹, Trisha Roy², K.S. Kartika³, Rama Pal⁴, Vassanda Coumar⁵, S. Kala⁶ and K.C. Shinogi⁷

¹Scientist,  Soil Chemistry and Fertility, IISWC,  Research Centre, Kota, India Email: rashmisac@rediffmail.com; ²Scientist, Soil Chemistry and Fertility, IISWC,  Dehradun, India Email: trisha17.24@gmail.com; ³Scientist, Soil Chemistry and Fertility, CPCRI, Research Centre, Vittal, India Email: kskavukattu@gmail.com; ⁴Scientist,  Environmental Science, IISWC,  Research Centre, Agra, India Email: rama.env@gmail.com; ⁵Scientist, Soil Chemistry and Fertility, IISS, Bhopal, India Email: vassanda.coumar@gmail.com; ⁶Scientist, Agriculture extension, IISS, Bhopal, India Email: shinojikallely@gmail.com; ⁷Scientist, Forestry, IISWC, Research Centre, Kota, India kalaforestry@gmail.com

Chapter 02: Role of Nutrients in Plant Growth and Development

Preksha Shrivastav, Akbar Ali, Mrinalini Prasad, Teg Bahadur Singh, Arti Yadav, Deepika Goyal, Prem Kumar Dantu*

Dayalbagh Educational Institute, Agra-5, India, Email:  premdantu@gmail.com

Chapter 03: Practice and Impact of Pesticides in Agricultural Crops

Sushil Ahlawat 

Department of Microbiology, College of Basic Sciences and Humanities, CCS HAU, HISAR, India Email:  sushilahlawat08@gmail.com

Chapter 04: Response of Organic and Inorganic Fertilizers on Soil Microbial Population and Yield of Plants

Teg Bahadur Singh

Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Dayalbagh Educational Institute, Dayalbagh Agra - 282005

Chapter 05: An Overview of the Effect of Heavy Metals on Soil and Plant Growth

Deepika Goyal, Arti Yadav, Mrinalini Prasad, Teg Bhadur Singh, Preksha Shrivastava,  Akbar Ali, Prem Kumar Dantu, Sushma Mishra*

Dayalbagh Educational Institute, Agra-5, India ^*Email:  sushmamishra87@gmail.com

Chapter 06:  Effect of Acid Rain on Crop Plants and its Mitigation Approaches

Golam Jalal Ahammed

Henan University of Science and Technology

Luoyang City, Henan, China

Email:  ahammed@zju.edu.cn

SECTION-B: SOURCES OF CONTAMINANTS AND THEIR IMPACTS ON AGRICULTURE

Chapter 07: Heavy metals: Their Sources, Toxicity, Mechanism and Health Effects

Ayesha Siddiqa and Muhammad Faisal

Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Quaid-e-Azam Campus, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan Email: mohdfaysal@yahoo.com

Chapter 08: Heavy Metal Induced Gene Expression in Plants

Abdul Razaque Memon

Professor and Head, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Faculty of Science and Arts, Usak University, Bir Eylul Kampus, 64200 Usak/Merkez, Turkey

E mail: abdulrezzak.memon@gmail.com; armemon@usak.edu.tr

Chapter 09: Nano-contaminants: Sources and Impact on Agriculture

Mrinalini Prasad, Anamika Gupta, Akbar Ali and Rajiv Ranjan*

Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Dayalbagh Educational Institute (Deemed University), Dayalbagh, Agra-282005, India, Email:  rajivranjanbt@gmail.com

Chapter 10: Heavy Metal Toxicity and Tolerance in Crop Plants

M. Affan Baig, Sadia Qamar¹, Arlene Asthana Ali¹, Javed Ahmad¹, M. Irfan Qureshi¹

Proteomics and Bioinformatics Lab, Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Jamia Mil