With the growth of industrial activities, environmental pollution with metals has become more and more pronounced, being an increasingly serious threat to the environment, health, and human life. The work aims to evaluate the possibilities of remediation of soil polluted by mining activities using the barley species Hordeum vulgare L. The soil used in the research is sandy, partially structured, slightly acidic, and contains h...

Tightly sealed driver's cabs can effectively protect the user from exposure when applying crop protection products. Therefore, under certain conditions, users in such cabins can avoid wearing personal protective equipment for skin and eyes. The protective effect depends on the technical design and handling of the different cabin types and can be divided into categories with different levels of protection. Since the level of pr...

Exposure to pesticide spray drift during the application of plant protection products (PPP) in orchards poses potential health risks to bystanders and residents. To address this concern, this study aimed to gather novel field data on exposure to spray drift in orchards. The research was conducted by the Julius Kuehn-Institute (JKI), the Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety (BVL), and the German Federal Institu...

The presence of pharmacologically active compounds (PhACs) in surface waters poses an environmental risk of chronic exposure to nontarget organisms, which is a well-established and serious concern worldwide. Our aim was to determine the temporal changes in ecological risk quotient (RQ) based on the concentrations of 42 PhACs from six sampling sites on seven sampling dates in the water of a freshwater lake in Central Europe pre...

Grapevine can be infected by several viruses and viroids, the presence of which can lead to yield losses and vineyard decline. Our previous survey of vineyards in Hungary suggested that viral infection originates from infected propagation material. To investigate whether rootstocks can be a source of virus infections, we surveyed seventeen rootstock vineyards and two rootstock collections in Hungary to determine the virome by...