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Antibiotics Pollution in the Paddy Soil Environment

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Environmental Pollution of Paddy Soils

Part of the book series: Soil Biology ((SOILBIOL,volume 53))

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Antibiotics have been widely used in human and veterinary medicine. However, their excessive use had led to accumulation in soils, water, and biota around the world. Antibiotics present in the environment may exert a selective pressure on bacterial communities leading to an increase in the prevalence of resistance. Wastewater treatment plants and the use of manure for agricultural practices are considered as an important point source of evolution and spreading of antibiotics and antibiotic resistance into the environment. Therefore, antibiotics and antibiotic resistance genes are now considered environmental pollutants. Antibiotic contamination in soils and water may cause adverse effects on plant growth and may result in their uptake and accumulation in crops. Paddy soils represent a large portion of global cropland. Wastewater and manure are used for paddy soils management which may represent a health concern since antibiotics may be present in manure and wastewater which may contaminate the food chain and eventually affect human and animal health. This chapter explores the antibiotic and antibiotic resistance genes as environment pollutants, in particular in paddy soils environment, their effect on plant growth, and the plants’ ability to uptake and accumulate antibiotics.

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  1. Veterinary Sciences Department, University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro, Vila Real, Portugal

    Vanessa Silva & Patrícia Poeta

  2. Associated Laboratory for Green Chemistry (LAQV-REQUIMTE), University NOVA of Lisbon, Caparica, Portugal

    Vanessa Silva, Gilberto Igrejas & Patrícia Poeta

  3. Department of Genetics and Biotechnology, Functional Genomics and Proteomics Unit, University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro, Vila Real, Portugal

    Gilberto Igrejas

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Silva, V., Igrejas, G., Poeta, P. (2018). Antibiotics Pollution in the Paddy Soil Environment. In: Hashmi, M., Varma, A. (eds) Environmental Pollution of Paddy Soils. Soil Biology, vol 53. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93671-0_5

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