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Traceable and Biocompatible Carbon Dots from Simple Precursors: A Pre-Deployment Safety Baseline

Agrochemicals
Carbon dots (CDs) are promising for agro-environmental applications; however, clear connections between synthesis, photophysical properties, size, and biosafety are often not well established.
Christian Silva-Sanzana, Plinio Innocenzi, Luca Malfatti, Federico Fiori, Francisca Blanco-Herrera, Juan Hormazabal, María Victoria Gangas, Oscar Diaz, Iván Balic   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Patterns, Practices, and Socio-Environmental Dynamics of Pesticide Use in the Horticultural Value Chain: Insights from Smallholder Farmers and Agro-Input Sellers in Iringa and Njombe, Southern Highlands, Tanzania

Agrochemicals
Background: The use of pesticides among smallholder farmers, agrochemical sellers, and agricultural officers involves a complex interplay of knowledge, economic factors, and regulatory frameworks.
Peter Martin Chilipweli, Elias C. Nyanza, Aiwerasia Vera Ngowi   +2 more
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Agricultural Biomass as a Resource for Biomaterials, Biofertilizers, and Bioproducts: A Systematic Review

Agrochemicals
This systematic review aimed to examine recent advances (2021–2025) in the conversion of agricultural biomass into biomaterials, biofertilizers, and bioproducts.
Bruna Pereira Almeida, Luiz Felipe Silveira Pavão, Marcelo Silveira de Farias, Nidgia Maria Nicolodi, Mirta Teresinha Petry, Marisa Menezes Leal, Paulo Carteri Coradi, Victória Lumertz de Souza, Mayara de Souza Queirós, Guilherme de Figueiredo Furtado, Marcus Vinicíus Tres, Giovani Leone Zabot   +11 more
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Alkaloid-Based Insecticides as Possible Tools for Sustainable Agriculture: Mechanisms, Applications, and Challenges

Agrochemicals
Alkaloids are structurally diverse, nitrogen-containing plant secondary metabolites with well-documented insecticidal activity. This review examines alkaloid-based insecticides, focusing on their chemical diversity, biosynthetic origins, plant ...
Everaldo Attard, Jules Siedenburg
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The Role of Economic Thresholds in Optimizing Insecticide Application in Soybean Production in the Major Producing Countries of the World

Agrochemicals
Global population growth has increased the demand for food production and, therefore, for higher crop yields, especially for soybean, which is one of the most cost-effective and affordable sources of high-quality protein for animal and human nutrition ...
Adeney de F. Bueno, William W. Hoback, Ivair Valmorbida, Yelitza C. Colmenarez, Weidson P. Sutil, Lian-Sheng Zang   +5 more
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Catalytic C–F Bond Activation at Room Temperature: Enolate Cross‐Couplings Enabled by [Pd(1‐MeNAP)TFA]2 and LiHMDS

Angewandte Chemie International Edition, EarlyView.
Catalysts generated from the trifluoroacetate‐bridged methylnaphthyl‐palladium dimer [Pd(1‐MeNAP)TFA]2 and biarylphosphine ligands in combination with the base LiHMDS promote α‐arylation reactions of various enolates with non‐activated aryl fluorides at room temperature.
Nele Krüger, Jie Shen, Sourav Manna, Lamphiza O. Najiar, Lukas J. Gooßen   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

A One Health Approach Involving Composting and Compost: Balancing Human Health Risks and Agricultural Benefits

Agrochemicals
The one health approach recognizes the interconnection between human, animal, and environmental health, emphasizing that human health should never be threatened in the pursuit of agricultural productivity.
Mohamed Ou-Zine, Said El Kinany, Said Ezrari, Rachid Bouamri   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Sustainable Palm Oil Extraction and Trends in the Use of Green Technologies: State‐of‐the‐Art and Future Directions

Journal of the American Oil Chemists' Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Palm oil, which is extracted from the mesocarp of the fruit of the Elaeis guineensis Jacq. palm tree, is the most widely produced vegetable oil in the world. The extraction of this substance typically utilizes the conventional pressing method, a technique that is advantageous due to its low operating cost and simplified process.
Constantino Lucas Queta, Alessandra Lopes de Oliveira, Aline Silva Mello Cesar   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Physiological Factors Influencing Bacillus thuringiensis Susceptibility in Laboratory and Field-Collected Bollworm, Helicoverpa zea (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)

Agrochemicals
Field-evolved resistance of Helicoverpa zea to crops expressing Cry insecticidal proteins from Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) is widespread across the United States.
Yuzhe Du, Shane Scheibener, Nathan S. Little, Blake H. Elkins, Yu-Cheng Zhu   +4 more
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Machine Learning‐Enabled Prediction of pH‐Responsive Curcumin Release From Self‐Assembled Nanomicelles

Journal of Applied Polymer Science, EarlyView.
Curcumin encapsulation in nanomicelles coupled with a machine learning–guided model for predicting its release profile. ABSTRACT This work, leveraging machine‐learning algorithms, focuses on the design and in vitro evaluation of oil‐in‐water surfactant‐based nanomicelles as a novel curcumin formulation with comparable cytotoxic effects against MCF‐7 ...
Abbas Rahdar, Sonia Fathi‐karkan, Maryam Shirzad, M. Ali Aboudzadeh   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source