Sub-therapeutic levels of antibiotics (ABs) are given to animals and poultry to promote growth and reduce disease. In agricultural environments, ABs reach croplands via animal manure used as fertilizer and/or ABs-contaminated water used for irrigation. The continuous discharge of ABs into the ecosystem raises growing concerns on the ABs contamination of edible crops. Tetracyclines (TCs) are among the most widely used ABs around the world. In this review, we discuss the contamination of irrigation water with TCs, its impact on edible crops, and the potential risks of crop contamination with TCs on human health. We propose solar-mediated photocatalytic degradation using Titania (TiO2) photocatalyst as a promising method to remove TCs from irrigation water. The photocatalytic activity of TiO2 can be enhanced by chemical modification to expand its activity under visible light irradiation. Herein, we aim for providing literature-based guidance on developing a visible light–active TiO2-based system to degrade TCs and other ABs in water streams. We include a summary of recent advances on this topic based on three main modification methods of Titania: metal/non-metal/mixed doping, composite formation, and heterojunction construction. Among the investigated photocatalysts, Fe2O3-TiO2/Fe-zeolite and the N-doped TiO2/rGO immobilized composite catalysts were found to be very efficient in the degradation of TCs under visible light irradiation (i.e., 98% degradation within 60 min). Most immobilized TiO2 based composite systems exhibited improved performances and hence we highlight these as efficient, cost effective and ecofriendly photocatalysts for the degradation of TCs in irrigation water.

In order to study the effect of phosphate biofertilizer and chemical fertilizers of nitrogen, phosphorus and sulfur on some growth and yield components of Camelina sativa L., a study was conducted based on a factorial experiment; this was done in a randomized complete block design with three replications at Kazeroon during the 2016 growing season. Treatments included bio-based phosphorus (P) fertilizers (Barvar-2) containing phosphate solubilizing bacteria (PSB) (the Pseudomonas putida Strain 13P and Strain 5P and the Pantoea agglomerans Strain 5P) as the first factor at two levels (inoculated and uninoculated seeds) and chemical fertilizer as the second factor, including control, nitrogen, phosphorus and sulfur alone, based on the recommended doses of NPS and 50% recommended NPS fertilizers. The results showed that the effect of the use of the biofertilizer on plant height and number of seeds per silique and the number of siliques per plant, 1000 seed weight and harvest index were significant, but the number of branches, grain yield and biological yield were not significant. The use of chemical fertilizer as well as the interaction of chemical fertilizers × phosphate biofertilizer on all traits was significant. The combined use of bio-inoculants and chemical nitrogen + phosphorus + sulfur fertilizer, as compared to the control, increased plant height by 50.58%, the number of branches by 26.7%, seed number per silique by 29.8%, the grain yield by 86.88%, biologic yield by 63.58%, and harvest index by 32.36%. Nitrogen consumption increased the number of siliques per plant by 27.84% and nitrogen + sulfur treatment imrpoved 1000 seed weight by 54.54%, relative to the control treatment. So, according to the results of this experiment; the best fertilizer treatment for Camelina sativa L. production was the combination of nitrogen + phosphorus + sulfur fertilizer plus biofertilizer application.

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Because of the environmental footprint of oil-based materials, the demand for bio-based renewable materials is hiked. The usage of agricultural waste to extract cellulose, minimized the dependent of hydrocarbon products which is an added value besides due to overpopulation the productivity is increased, which leads to an increase in agricultural waste that causes environmental pollution. In this work, various cellulosic materials, such as cellulosic textile fibers (CTF), microcrystalline cellulosic fibers, and nanocrystalline cellulosic fibers, were extracted from coffee waste to make them into valuable products. The morphological analysis of extracted cellulose is performed by scanning electron microscopy, and the Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy was performed to investigate the structure of extracted cellulose, which indicates the crystalline cellulosic components from the extraction process; X-ray diffractometer analysis shows the extracted cellulose was cellulose I and cellulose II. The cellulose that is extracted by ultrasonication with dimethyl sulfoxide has 88 % of cellulose with a crystallinity index of 74.5 %, and the thermal properties of raw coffee husk and extracted cellulose were compared by thermogravimetric analysis. Additionally, the dye uptake of the CTF shows its potential as a bio-adsorbent in the dye removal domain.