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Sainz D, Behrends Kraemer F, Carfagno P, Eiza M, Chagas C. Soil hydro-physical variables and crop residues determinate runoff, soil loss, and glyphosate and AMPA concentration in the aqueous phase under simulated rainfall events. JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY 2024; 53:629-642. [PMID: 38982723 DOI: 10.1002/jeq2.20596] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2024] [Accepted: 05/20/2024] [Indexed: 07/11/2024]
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Soil structural degradation and water erosion processes were observed even in no-tillage schemes in the Pampas region. Within these conservation systems, agrochemical application per hectare is one of the highest globally. Thus, this entails a serious risk of water contamination. The objectives of this study were to (1) test the hypothesis that the hydrological dynamics and sediment concentration related to surface runoff were conditioned by soil structure regardless of the presence of maize (Zea mays L.) crop residue and (2) assess the incidence of maize crop residue on glyphosate and aminomethylphosphonic acid (AMPA) concentration in runoff. The soil under study corresponded to Arroyo Dulce Series (Typic Argiudoll silty loam soil). Rain simulations were performed in the laboratory on undisturbed soil samples. Total runoff and infiltration rate were similar between treatments with C(+) and without C(-) maize crop residues (C(+) 1381.40 mL and 14.27 mm h-1, C(-): 1529.70 mL and 21.67 mm h-1). The C(-) treatments showed a higher sediment concentration than C(+) (1.58 and 0.42 g 100 mL-1, respectively). Glyphosate and AMPA average values in runoff were 15.9 and 33.9 µg L-1. High variability of the hydro-physical properties and occurrence of soil structure, particularly platy ones, were detected. The hydrological variables were conditioned mainly by the occurrence of platy structures regardless of crop residue presence. Glyphosate concentration was increased in the first runoff event by the presence of corn residues, while AMPA concentrations were higher in the second runoff event in both residue treatments. In this study, maize residue on the soil surface protected the soil from sediment detachment but did not change runoff or infiltration. Thus, the implementation of agricultural management practices that promote vegetative residue cover has shown positive results to erosion.
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- Daiana Sainz
- Instituto de Suelos-CIRN-INTA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Cátedra de Manejo y Conservación de Suelos, Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Cátedra de Manejo y Conservación de Suelos, Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Cátedra de Manejo y Conservación de Suelos, Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Ali A, Elrys AS, Liu L, Iqbal M, Zhao J, Huang X, Cai Z. Cover Plants-Mediated Suppression of Fusarium Wilt and Root-Knot Incidence of Cucumber is Associated With the Changes of Rhizosphere Fungal Microbiome Structure-Under Plastic Shed System of North China. Front Microbiol 2022; 13:697815. [PMID: 35444626 PMCID: PMC9015784 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2022.697815] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2021] [Accepted: 02/14/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Cover crops are known to alleviate the adverse effects of continuous cropping by influencing plant health and changing host fungal-microbiome structures. However, insight into the shift of rhizomicrobiota composition and their effects on plant growth performance and resistance mechanism is still limited under plastic shed cultivation (PSC). Four leafy vegetable rotations namely spinach rotation (SR), non-heading Chinese cabbage rotation (NCCR), coriander rotation (CR), and leafy lettuce rotation (LLR) were used as cover crops in 7-years of continuous cucumber planted soil (CC). Their ecological impacts were studied for plant growth performance, replant diseases incidence rate, and rhizosphere fungal microbiome. Compared to CC, SR showed a highly suppressive effect on fusarium wilt, i.e., by 13.2% in the spring season, while NCCR decreased the root-knot nematode incidence rate by 8.9% in the autumn season. Such protective effects caused a significant increase of shoot and fruit biomass and thus sustained the fruit quality of cucumber. High-throughput sequencing revealed that the CR, SR, and NCCR treatments altered the fungal community composition by increasing the abundance of the beneficial fungal genera, decreasing pathogenic taxa, and fostering the saprotrophic and symbiotic functions. However, the relative abundance of most of the potentially pathogenic fungal genera increased in CC and LLR cropping. There were 8 potential pathogens and 10 beneficial or biocontrol fungi characterized. It was found that Paecilomyces, Chaetomium, Cladorrhinum, Zopfiella, Purpureocillium, and Metarhizium were the putative biocontrol microbes that positively affected plant growth and replanted diseases inhibition. The characterized Fusarium, Dactylonectria, Alternaria, Gibberella, and Aspergillus were the key pathogenic fungal agents found to be negatively associated with plant growth characters, suggesting that rhizomicrobiome may play an important role in the occurrence of disease incidence of cucumber plants. Considering the ecological potential of some cover plants, this study suggested that rotation with spinach, non-heading Chinese cabbage, or coriander can enhance rhizosphere immunity by triggering the development of plant-protective fungal microbiomes under plastic shed cucumber cultivation.
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- Ahmad Ali
- School of Geography, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China
- College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, China
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- School of Geography, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China
- Soil Science Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Zagazig University, Zagazig, Egypt
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- School of Geography, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China
- Jiangsu Engineering Research Center for Soil Utilization and Sustainable Agriculture, Nanjing, China
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- Institute of Soil Science, PMAS-Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi, Pakistan
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- School of Geography, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China
- Jiangsu Engineering Research Center for Soil Utilization and Sustainable Agriculture, Nanjing, China
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- School of Geography, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China
- Jiangsu Engineering Research Center for Soil Utilization and Sustainable Agriculture, Nanjing, China
- State Key Laboratory Cultivation Base of Geographical Environment Evolution, Nanjing, China
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- School of Geography, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China
- Jiangsu Engineering Research Center for Soil Utilization and Sustainable Agriculture, Nanjing, China
- State Key Laboratory Cultivation Base of Geographical Environment Evolution, Nanjing, China
- Jiangsu Center for Collaborative Innovation in Geographical Information Resource Development and Application, Nanjing, China
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Mertens M, Höss S, Neumann G, Afzal J, Reichenbecher W. Glyphosate, a chelating agent-relevant for ecological risk assessment? ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2018; 25:5298-5317. [PMID: 29294235 PMCID: PMC5823954 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-017-1080-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 87] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/08/2017] [Accepted: 12/18/2017] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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Glyphosate-based herbicides (GBHs), consisting of glyphosate and formulants, are the most frequently applied herbicides worldwide. The declared active ingredient glyphosate does not only inhibit the EPSPS but is also a chelating agent that binds macro- and micronutrients, essential for many plant processes and pathogen resistance. GBH treatment may thus impede uptake and availability of macro- and micronutrients in plants. The present study investigated whether this characteristic of glyphosate could contribute to adverse effects of GBH application in the environment and to human health. According to the results, it has not been fully elucidated whether the chelating activity of glyphosate contributes to the toxic effects on plants and potentially on plant-microorganism interactions, e.g., nitrogen fixation of leguminous plants. It is also still open whether the chelating property of glyphosate is involved in the toxic effects on organisms other than plants, described in many papers. By changing the availability of essential as well as toxic metals that are bound to soil particles, the herbicide might also impact soil life, although the occurrence of natural chelators with considerably higher chelating potentials makes an additional impact of glyphosate for most metals less likely. Further research should elucidate the role of glyphosate (and GBH) as a chelator, in particular, as this is a non-specific property potentially affecting many organisms and processes. In the process of reevaluation of glyphosate its chelating activity has hardly been discussed.
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- Martha Mertens
- Institute for Biodiversity Network e.V. (ibn), Nußbergerstr. 6a, 93059, Regensburg, Germany.
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- Institute for Biodiversity Network e.V. (ibn), Nußbergerstr. 6a, 93059, Regensburg, Germany
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- Institute of Crop Science (340h), University of Hohenheim, 70599, Stuttgart, Germany
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- Institute of Crop Science (340h), University of Hohenheim, 70599, Stuttgart, Germany
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- Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN), Konstantinstr. 110, 53179, Bonn, Germany
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Horn P, Schlichting A, Baum C, Hammesfahr U, Thiele-Bruhn S, Leinweber P, Broer I. Reprint of "Fast and sensitive in vivo studies under controlled environmental conditions to substitute long-term field trials with genetically modified plants". J Biotechnol 2017; 257:22-34. [PMID: 28755910 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiotec.2017.07.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/12/2016] [Revised: 12/14/2016] [Accepted: 12/18/2016] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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We introduce an easy, fast and effective method to analyze the influence of genetically modified (GM) plants on soil and model organisms in the laboratory to substitute laborious and time consuming field trials. For the studies described here we focused on two GM plants of the so-called 3rd generation: GM plants producing pharmaceuticals (PMP) and plant made industrials (PMI). Cyanophycin synthetase (cphA) was chosen as model for PMI and Choleratoxin B (CTB) as model for PMP. The model genes are expressed in transgenic roots of composite Vicia hirsuta plants grown in petri dishes for semi-sterile growth or small containers filled with non-sterile soil. No significant influence of the model gene expression on root induction, growth, biomass, interaction with symbionts such as rhizobia (number, size and functionality of nodules, selection of nodulating strains) or arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi could be detected. In vitro, but not in situ under field conditions, structural diversity of the bulk soil microbial community between transgenic and non-transgenic cultivars was determined by PLFA pattern-derived ratios of bacteria: fungi and of gram+: gram- bacteria. Significant differences in PLFA ratios were associated with dissimilarities in the quantity and molecular composition of rhizodeposits as revealed by Py-FIMS analyses. Contrary to field trials, where small effects based on the transgene expression might be hidden by the immense influence of various environmental factors, our in vitro system can detect even minor effects and correlates them to transgene expression with less space, time and labour.
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- Patricia Horn
- Agrobiotechnology, Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, University of Rostock, Germany
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- Soil Science, Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, University of Rostock, Germany
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- Soil Science, Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, University of Rostock, Germany
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- Soil Science, Faculty of Regional and Environmental Sciences, University of Trier, Germany
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- Soil Science, Faculty of Regional and Environmental Sciences, University of Trier, Germany
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- Soil Science, Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, University of Rostock, Germany
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- Agrobiotechnology, Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, University of Rostock, Germany.
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Horn P, Schlichting A, Baum C, Hammesfahr U, Thiele-Bruhn S, Leinweber P, Broer I. Fast and sensitive in vivo studies under controlled environmental conditions to substitute long-term field trials with genetically modified plants. J Biotechnol 2017; 243:48-60. [PMID: 28011129 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiotec.2016.12.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/12/2016] [Revised: 12/14/2016] [Accepted: 12/18/2016] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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We introduce an easy, fast and effective method to analyze the influence of genetically modified (GM) plants on soil and model organisms in the laboratory to substitute laborious and time consuming field trials. For the studies described here we focused on two GM plants of the so-called 3rd generation: GM plants producing pharmaceuticals (PMP) and plant made industrials (PMI). Cyanophycin synthetase (cphA) was chosen as model for PMI and Choleratoxin B (CTB) as model for PMP. The model genes are expressed in transgenic roots of composite Vicia hirsuta plants grown in petri dishes for semi-sterile growth or small containers filled with non-sterile soil. No significant influence of the model gene expression on root induction, growth, biomass, interaction with symbionts such as rhizobia (number, size and functionality of nodules, selection of nodulating strains) or arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi could be detected. In vitro, but not in situ under field conditions, structural diversity of the bulk soil microbial community between transgenic and non-transgenic cultivars was determined by PLFA pattern-derived ratios of bacteria: fungi and of gram+: gram- bacteria. Significant differences in PLFA ratios were associated with dissimilarities in the quantity and molecular composition of rhizodeposits as revealed by Py-FIMS analyses. Contrary to field trials, where small effects based on the transgene expression might be hidden by the immense influence of various environmental factors, our in vitro system can detect even minor effects and correlates them to transgene expression with less space, time and labour.
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- Patricia Horn
- Agrobiotechnology, Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, University of Rostock, Germany
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- Soil Science, Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, University of Rostock, Germany
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- Soil Science, Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, University of Rostock, Germany
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- Soil Science, Faculty of Regional and Environmental Sciences, University of Trier, Germany
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- Soil Science, Faculty of Regional and Environmental Sciences, University of Trier, Germany
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- Soil Science, Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, University of Rostock, Germany
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- Agrobiotechnology, Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, University of Rostock, Germany.
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Jenkins MB, Locke MA, Reddy KN, McChesney DS, Steinriede RW. Impact of glyphosate-resistant corn, glyphosate applications and tillage on soil nutrient ratios, exoenzyme activities and nutrient acquisition ratios. PEST MANAGEMENT SCIENCE 2017; 73:78-86. [PMID: 27491933 DOI: 10.1002/ps.4413] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2016] [Revised: 08/01/2016] [Accepted: 08/02/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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BACKGROUND We report results of the last two years of a 7 year field experiment designed to test the null hypothesis: applications of glyphosate on glyphosate-resistant (GR) and non-resistant (non-GR) corn (Zea mays L.) under conventional tillage and no-till would have no effect on soil exoenzymes and microbial activity. RESULTS Bulk soil (BS) and rhizosphere soil (RS) macronutrient ratios were not affected by either GR or non-GR corn, or glyphosate applications. Differences observed between exoenzyme activities were associated with tillage rather than glyphosate applications. In 2013, nutrient acquisition ratios for bulk and rhizosphere soils indicated P limitations, but sufficient assimilable N. In 2014, P limitations were observed for bulk and rhizosphere soils, in contrast to balanced C and N acquisition ratios in rhizosphere soils. Stoichiometric relationships indicated few differences between glyphosate and non-glyphosate treatments. Negative correlations between C:P and N:P nutrient ratios and nutrient acquisition ratios underscored the inverse relation between soil nutrient status and microbial community exoenzyme activities. CONCLUSIONS Inconsistent relationships between microbial community metabolic activity and exoenzyme activity indicated an ephemeral effect of glyphosate on BS exoenzyme activity. Except for ephemeral effects, glyphosate applications appeared not to affect the function of the BS and RS exoenzymes under conventional tillage or no-till. Published 2016. This article is a U.S. Government work and is in the public domain in the USA.
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- Michael B Jenkins
- National Sedimentation Laboratory, Water Quality and Ecology Research Unit, USDA - Agriculture Research Service, Oxford, MS, USA
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- National Sedimentation Laboratory, Water Quality and Ecology Research Unit, USDA - Agriculture Research Service, Oxford, MS, USA
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- Crop Production Systems Research Unit, USDA - Agriculture Research Service, Stoneville, MS, USA
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- National Sedimentation Laboratory, Water Quality and Ecology Research Unit, USDA - Agriculture Research Service, Oxford, MS, USA
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- National Sedimentation Laboratory, Water Quality and Ecology Research Unit, USDA - Agriculture Research Service, Oxford, MS, USA
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Riede S, Toboldt A, Breves G, Metzner M, Köhler B, Bräunig J, Schafft H, Lahrssen-Wiederholt M, Niemann L. Investigations on the possible impact of a glyphosate-containing herbicide on ruminal metabolism and bacteria in vitro by means of the 'Rumen Simulation Technique'. J Appl Microbiol 2016; 121:644-56. [PMID: 27230806 DOI: 10.1111/jam.13190] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/07/2015] [Revised: 05/20/2016] [Accepted: 05/22/2016] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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AIMS This study was performed in a well-established in vitro model to investigate whether the application of a glyphosate-containing herbicide might affect the bacterial communities and some biochemical parameters in a cow's rumen. METHODS AND RESULTS The test item was applied in two concentrations (high and low) for 5 days. In a second trial, fermentation vessels were inoculated with Clostridium sporogenes before the high dose was applied. Effluents were analysed by biochemical, microbiological and genetic methods. A marginal increase in short-chain fatty acid production and a reduction in NH3 -N were observed. There were minor and rather equivocal changes in the composition of ruminal bacteria but no indications of a shift towards a more frequent abundance of pathogenic Clostridia species. Clostridium sporogenes counts declined consistently. CONCLUSIONS No adverse effects of the herbicide on ruminal metabolism or composition of the bacterial communities could be detected. In particular, there was no evidence of a suspected stimulation of Clostridia growth. SIGNIFICANCE AND IMPACT OF THE STUDY Antibiotic activity of glyphosate resulting in microbial imbalances has been postulated. In this exploratory study, however, intraruminal application of concentrations reflecting potential exposure of dairy cows or beef cattle did not exhibit significant effects on bacterial communities in a complex in vitro system. The low number of replicates (n = 3/dose) may leave some uncertainty.
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- S Riede
- Department of Physiology, University of Veterinary Medicine, Hannover, Germany
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- Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Physiology, University of Veterinary Medicine, Hannover, Germany
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- RIPAC-LABOR GmbH, Potsdam, Germany
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- Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, Berlin, Germany
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- Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, Berlin, Germany
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- Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, Berlin, Germany
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Mamy L, Barriuso E, Gabrielle B. Glyphosate fate in soils when arriving in plant residues. CHEMOSPHERE 2016; 154:425-433. [PMID: 27077537 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2016.03.104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/27/2015] [Revised: 03/09/2016] [Accepted: 03/19/2016] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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A significant fraction of pesticides sprayed on crops may be returned to soils via plant residues, but its fate has been little documented. The objective of this work was to study the fate of glyphosate associated to plants residues. Oilseed rape was used as model plant using two lines: a glyphosate-tolerant (GT) line and a non-GT one, considered as a crucifer weed. The effects of different fragmentation degrees and placements in soil of plant residues were tested. A control was set up by spraying glyphosate directly on the soil. The mineralization of glyphosate in soil was slower when incorporated into plant residues, and the amounts of extractable and non-extractable glyphosate residues increased. Glyphosate availability for mineralization increased when the size of plant residues decreased, and as the distribution of plant residues in soil was more homogeneous. After 80 days of soil incubation, extractable (14)C-residues mostly involved one metabolite of glyphosate (AMPA) but up to 2.6% of initial (14)C was still extracted from undecayed leaves as glyphosate. Thus, the trapping of herbicides in plant materials provided a protection against degradation, and crops residues returns may increase the persistence of glyphosate in soils. This pattern appeared more pronounced for GT crops, which accumulated more non-degraded glyphosate in their tissues.
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- Laure Mamy
- UMR ECOSYS, INRA, AgroParisTech, Université Paris-Saclay, 78850 Thiverval-Grignon, France.
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- UMR ECOSYS, INRA, AgroParisTech, Université Paris-Saclay, 78850 Thiverval-Grignon, France.
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- UMR ECOSYS, INRA, AgroParisTech, Université Paris-Saclay, 78850 Thiverval-Grignon, France.
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Shirokikh IG, Nasarova YI, Shirokikh AA, Ogorodnikova SY, Tovstik EV, Baranova EN. Impact of the genetically engineered enhancement of the antioxidant protection of tobacco on the streptomycete complex in the rhizosphere of transformant plants. CONTEMP PROBL ECOL+ 2015. [DOI: 10.1134/s1995425515060189] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Aslam S, Iqbal A, Deschamps M, Recous S, Garnier P, Benoit P. Effect of rainfall regimes and mulch decomposition on the dissipation and leaching of S-metolachlor and glyphosate: a soil column experiment. PEST MANAGEMENT SCIENCE 2015; 71:278-91. [PMID: 24753267 DOI: 10.1002/ps.3803] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/01/2013] [Revised: 04/11/2014] [Accepted: 04/11/2014] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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BACKGROUND Interception by plant residues is a major process affecting pesticide persistence and leaching in conservation agriculture. Dissipation and leaching of S-metolachlor and glyphosate was studied in repacked soil columns covered with a mulch of maize and lablab residues. The columns were submitted to two contrasting simulated rainfall regimes: one with light but frequent rain (LF) and one with less frequent but more intense rain (HI). In both treatments, columns received the same amount of rainwater by the end of the experiment. RESULTS Decomposing crop residues on the soil surface retained more than 50% of the applied amount of pesticide. S-metolachlor dissipation in mulch residues was faster under the LF rainfall regime. This was attributed to more humid surface conditions, under which mulch decomposition was also faster. The formation of metabolites of both molecules was higher under the LF rainfall regime. However, leaching of S-metolachlor and its metabolites to deeper soil layers was greater under the HI rainfall regime, whereas they accumulated in the surface layer under the LF rainfall regime. Glyphosate remained in the surface soil layer because of its strong adsorption capacity, whereas aminomethylphosphonic acid leached down in small amounts without any difference between the two rainfall regimes. CONCLUSION The impact of mulch residues on herbicide dissipation was strongly dependent on molecule type and rainfall regime. © 2014 Society of Chemical Industry.
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- Sohaib Aslam
- INRA, UMR 1091 EGC, 78850 Thiverval-Grignon, France; Forman Christian College, Lahore 54600, Pakistan
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Scientific Opinion on an application (EFSA‐GMO‐NL‐2005‐24) for the placing on the market of the herbicide tolerant genetically modified soybean 40‐3‐2 for cultivation under Regulation (EC) No 1829/2003 from Monsanto. EFSA J 2012. [DOI: 10.2903/j.efsa.2012.2753] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Scientific Opinion on application (EFSA-GMO-UK-2008-60) for placing on the market of genetically modified herbicide tolerant maize GA21 for food and feed uses, import, processing and cultivation under Regulation (EC) No 1829/2003 from Syngenta Seeds. EFSA J 2011. [DOI: 10.2903/j.efsa.2011.2480] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Barriuso J, Marín S, Mellado RP. Potential accumulative effect of the herbicide glyphosate on glyphosate-tolerant maize rhizobacterial communities over a three-year cultivation period. PLoS One 2011; 6:e27558. [PMID: 22096595 PMCID: PMC3214082 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0027558] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2011] [Accepted: 10/19/2011] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Glyphosate is a herbicide that is liable to be used in the extensive cultivation of glyphosate-tolerant cultivars. The potential accumulation of the relative effect of glyphosate on the rhizobacterial communities of glyphosate-tolerant maize has been monitored over a period of three years. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS The composition of rhizobacterial communities is known to vary with soil texture, hence, the analyses have been performed in two agricultural fields with a different soil texture. The accumulative effects of glyphosate have been monitored by means of high throughput DNA pyrosequencing of the bacterial DNA coding for the 16S rRNA hypervariable V6 region from rhizobacterial communities. The relative composition of the rhizobacterial communities does vary in each field over the three-year period. The overall distribution of the bacterial phyla seems to change from one year to the next similarly in the untreated and glyphosate-treated soils in both fields. The two methods used to estimate bacterial diversity offered consistent results and are equally suitable for diversity assessment. CONCLUSIONS/SIGNIFICANCE The glyphosate treatment during the three-year period of seasonal cultivation in two different fields did not seem to significantly change the maize rhizobacterial communities when compared to those of the untreated soil. This may be particularly relevant with respect to a potential authorisation to cultivate glyphosate-tolerant maize in the European Union.
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- Jorge Barriuso
- Departamento de Biotecnología Microbiana, Centro Nacional de Biotecnología (CNB-CSIC), Madrid, Spain
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- Departamento de Biotecnología Microbiana, Centro Nacional de Biotecnología (CNB-CSIC), Madrid, Spain
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- Departamento de Biotecnología Microbiana, Centro Nacional de Biotecnología (CNB-CSIC), Madrid, Spain
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Scientific Opinion on application (EFSA-GMO-CZ-2008-54) for placing on the market of genetically modified insect resistant and herbicide tolerant maize MON 88017 for cultivation under Regulation (EC) No 1829/2003 from Monsanto. EFSA J 2011. [DOI: 10.2903/j.efsa.2011.2428] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
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Shipitalo MJ, Owens LB. Comparative losses of glyphosate and selected residual herbicides in surface runoff from conservation-tilled watersheds planted with corn or soybean. JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY 2011; 40:1281-9. [PMID: 21712598 DOI: 10.2134/jeq2010.0454] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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Residual herbicides regularly used in conjunction with conservation tillage to produce corn ( L.) and soybean [ (L.) Merr] are often detected in surface water at concentrations that exceed their U.S. maximum contaminant levels (MCL) and ecological standards. These risks might be reduced by planting glyphosate-tolerant varieties of these crops and totally or partially replacing the residual herbicides alachlor, atrazine, linuron, and metribuzin with glyphosate, a contact herbicide that has a short half-life and is strongly sorbed to soil. Therefore, we applied both herbicide types at typical rates and times to two chisel-plowed and two no-till watersheds in a 2-yr corn/soybean rotation and at half rates to three disked watersheds in a 3-yr corn/soybean/wheat-red clover ( L.- L.) rotation and monitored herbicide losses in surface runoff for three crop years. Average dissolved glyphosate loss for all tillage practices, as a percentage of the amount applied, was significantly less ( ≤ 0.05) than the losses of atrazine (21.4x), alachlor (3.5x), and linuron (8.7x) in corn-crop years. Annual, flow-weighted, concentration of atrazine was as high as 41.3 μg L, much greater than its 3 μg L MCL. Likewise, annual, flow-weighted alachlor concentration (MCL = 2 μg L) was as high as 11.2 and 4.9 μg L in corn- and soybean-crop years, respectively. In only one runoff event during the 18 watershed-years it was applied did glyphosate concentration exceed its 700 μg L MCL and the highest, annual, flow-weighted concentration was 3.9 μg L. Planting glyphosate-tolerant corn and soybean and using glyphosate in lieu of some residual herbicides should reduce the impact of the production of these crops on surface water quality.
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Guidance on risk assessment of herbicide tolerant GM plants by the European Food Safety Authority. J Verbrauch Lebensm 2011. [DOI: 10.1007/s00003-011-0686-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Collier MJ, Mullins E. The CINMa index: assessing the potential impact of GM crop management across a heterogeneous landscape. ENVIRONMENTAL BIOSAFETY RESEARCH 2010; 9:135-145. [PMID: 21975254 DOI: 10.1051/ebr/2011102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/02/2010] [Accepted: 02/19/2011] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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While significant progress has been made on the modification of crops for the benefit of producers, the same cannot be said in regards to eliciting the potential impact that these crops may have on the wider landscape and the diversity of life therein. Management impacts can create difficulties when making policy, regulation and licensing decisions in those countries where agriculture has a significant social and ecological position in the landscape. To begin to gauge the potential impacts of the management of a selection of GM crops on an agricultural landscape, four key biodiversity stressors (Chemicals, Introgression, Nutrients and Management: CINMa) were identified and a grading system developed using published data. Upon application to five selected GM crops in a case study area, CINMa identifies areas in the wider landscape where biodiversity is likely to be negatively or positively impacted, as well as agricultural zones which may benefit from the land use change associated with the management of GM crops and their associated post market environmental monitoring.
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- Marcus J Collier
- Dept. Crop Science, Programme for Crops, Environment and Land Use, Teagasc Research Centre, Oak Park, Carlow, Ireland
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Barriuso J, Marín S, Mellado RP. Effect of the herbicide glyphosate on glyphosate-tolerant maize rhizobacterial communities: a comparison with pre-emergency applied herbicide consisting of a combination of acetochlor and terbuthylazine. Environ Microbiol 2010; 12:1021-30. [PMID: 20105215 DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2009.02146.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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A comparison was made of the effect of glyphosate (RoundupPlus), a post-emergency applied herbicide, and of HarnessGTZ, a pre-emergency applied herbicide, on the rhizobacterial communities of genetically modified NK603 glyphosate-tolerant maize. The potential effect was monitored by direct amplification, cloning and sequencing of soil DNA encoding 16S rRNA, rhizobacterial DNA hybridization to commercially available genome-wide microarrays from the soil bacterium Streptomyces coelicolor, and high-throughput DNA pyrosequencing of the bacterial DNA coding for 16S rRNA hypervariable V6 region. The results obtained strongly suggest that both herbicides do in fact affect the maize rhizobacterial communities, glyphosate being, to a great extent, the environmentally less aggressive herbicide.
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- Jorge Barriuso
- Centro Nacional de Biotecnología (CSIC), c/ Darwin 3, Campus de Universidad Autónoma, Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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Zablotowicz RM, Accinelli C, Krutz LJ, Reddy KN. Soil depth and tillage effects on glyphosate degradation. JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD CHEMISTRY 2009; 57:4867-71. [PMID: 19408929 DOI: 10.1021/jf900272w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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The use of glyphosate-resistant crops facilitated the widespread adoption of no-tillage (NT) cropping systems. The experimental objectives were to determine glyphosate sorption, mineralization, and persistence at two depths [0-2 cm (A) and 2-10 cm (B)] in a silt loam managed under long-term conventional tillage (CT) or NT soybean. Relative to the other soils, organic carbon (OC) and fluorescein diacetate (FDA) hydrolytic activity were at least 1.4-fold higher in NT-A. Glyphosate K(d) values ranged from 78.2 to 48.1 and were not correlated with OC. Cumulative glyphosate mineralized after 35 days was highest in NT-A soil (70%), intermediate in CT-A and CT-B (63%), and least in NT-B (51%). Mineralization was positively correlated with OC and FDA activity, but negatively correlated with K(d), indicating that sorption decreased bioavailability. Independent of tillage and depth, the half-lives for 0.01 N CaCl(2) and 0.1 N NaOH extractable residues (bioavailable residues and residues bound to iron and aluminum oxides, respectively) were
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- Robert M Zablotowicz
- US Department of Agriculture, Southern Weed Science Research Unit, Agricultural Research Service, Stoneville, Mississippi 38776, USA.
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Applications (references EFSA‐GMO‐NL‐2005‐22, EFSA‐GMO‐RX‐NK603) for the placing on the market of the genetically modified glyphosate tolerant maize NK603 for cultivation, food and feed uses, import and processing and for renewal of the authorisation of maize NK603 as existing products, both under Regulation (EC) No 1829/2003 from Monsanto. EFSA J 2009. [DOI: 10.2903/j.efsa.2009.1137] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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Krutz LJ, Locke MA, Steinriede RW. Interactions of tillage and cover crop on water, sediment, and pre-emergence herbicide loss in glyphosate-resistant cotton: implications for the control of glyphosate-resistant weed biotypes. JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY 2009; 38:1240-7. [PMID: 19398522 DOI: 10.2134/jeq2008.0342] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2008] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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The need to control glyphosate [N-(phosphonomethyl)glycine]-resistant weed biotypes with tillage and preemergence herbicides in glyphosate-resistant crops (GRCs) is causing a reduction in no-tillage hectarage thereby threatening the advances made in water quality over the past decade. Consequently, if environmental gains afforded by GRCs are to be maintained, then an in-field best management practice (BMP) compatible with tillage is required for hectarage infested with glyphosate-resistant weed biotypes. Thus, 1 d after a preemergent application of fluometuron [N,N-dimethyl-N'-(3-(trifluoromethyl)phenyl)urea] (1.02 kg ha(-1)) and metolachlor [2-chloro-N-(2-ethyl-6-methylphenyl)-N-(2-methoxy-1-methylethyl)acetamide] (1.18 kg ha(-1)) to a Dundee silt loam (fine-silty, mixed, active, thermic Typic Endoaqualf), simulated rainfall (60 mm h(-1)) was applied to 0.0002-ha microplots for approximately 1.25 h to elucidate tillage (no tillage [NT] and reduced tillage [RT])and cover crop (no cover [NC] and rye cover [RC]) effects on water, sediment, and herbicide loss in surface runoff. Regardless of tillage, RC delayed time-to-runoff 1.3-fold, reduced cumulative runoff volume 1.4-fold, and decreased cumulative sediment loss 4.7-fold. Cumulative fluometuron loss was not affected by tillage or cover crop. Conversely, total metolachlor loss was 1.3-fold lower in NT than RT and 1.4-fold lower in RC than NC. These data indicate that RC can be established in hectarage requiring tillage and potentially curtail water, sediment, and preemergence herbicide losses in the spring to levels equivalent to or better than that of NT, thereby protecting environmental gains provided by GRCs.
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- L Jason Krutz
- United States Department of Agriculture, Agriculture Research Service, Southern Weed Science Research Unit, P.O. Box 350, Stoneville, MS 38776, USA.
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Duke SO, Powles SB. Glyphosate-resistant weeds and crops. Editorial. PEST MANAGEMENT SCIENCE 2008; 64:317-8. [PMID: 18340651 DOI: 10.1002/ps.1561] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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