What is pesticide and antibiotic resistance?

Increasing pesticide use in agriculture is clearly responsible for the selection and emergence of multiple-antibiotic resistant phenotypes in pathogenic strains. The modified phenotype occurs after the exposure of strains to antibiotics and to different chemical substances that could exert a selective pressure.

What is pesticide resistance in biology?

Pesticide resistance is a preadaptive and genetic condition that implies the presence and selection of a collection of genes within a population of arthropods. A principal function of this suite of genes is to detoxify the chemicals used for pest control.

Can pesticides cause antibiotic resistance?

An association between pesticides and AMR has been suggested by some studies (6). Some strains of pesticide-degrading bacteria isolated from soils exposed to pesticides were resistant to five commonly-used antibiotics.

What is meant by antibiotic resistant?

Antibiotic resistance happens when germs like bacteria and fungi develop the ability to defeat the drugs designed to kill them. That means the germs are not killed and continue to grow. Infections caused by antibiotic-resistant germs are difficult, and sometimes impossible, to treat.

Are there any pathogens that are resistant to pesticides?

Some plant pathogens have also become resistant to pesticides. Among fruit producers in North America, apple growers perhaps have faced the most significant problems with pesticide resistance. Examples include streptomycin resistance in the fire blight bacterium and benomyl resistance in the apple scab pathogen.

What do you mean by antibiotic resistance in bacteria?

About Antimicrobial Resistance. Antibiotic resistance happens when germs like bacteria and fungi develop the ability to defeat the drugs designed to kill them. That means the germs are not killed and continue to grow.

Is the acquisition of antibiotic and pesticide resistance evidence for evolution?

Many Darwinists have claimed that the development of antibiotic and pesticide-resistance is one of the strongest evidences of Darwinian evolution. Examples include Greenspan, Crews, Iltis, Kopaska-Merkel, and the PBS series Evolution.

How does resistance to a pesticide develop over time?

With each pesticide application, those individuals at the more resistant end of the spectrum survive and reproduce. Over the years, the proportion of the population that can survive a pesticide spray increases, until that pesticide eventually becomes ineffective.