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Lara-Moreno A, Morillo E, Merchán F, Madrid F, Villaverde J. Bioremediation of a trifluralin contaminated soil using bioaugmentation with novel isolated bacterial strains and cyclodextrin. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2022; 840:156695. [PMID: 35709999 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.156695] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2022] [Revised: 05/24/2022] [Accepted: 06/10/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Trifluralin (TFL) is a highly persistent with a strong adsorption capacity on soil particles herbicide. This study was to isolate microbial consortia and bacterial strains from a soil with a historical application of pesticides to evaluate their potential to degrade TFL in soil. Different bioremediation techniques were considered for increasing the effectiveness of TFL degradation in soil. These techniques consisted of: i) biostimulation, using a nutrients solution (NS); ii) bioaugmentation, using a natural microbial consortium (NMC), seven individual bacterial strains isolated from NMC, and an artificial bacterial consortium formed by the seven TFL-degrading bacterial strains (ABC); iii) bioavailability enhancement, using a biodegradable compound, a randomly methylated cyclodextrin, RAMEB. Biostimulation using NS leads up to 34 % of soil TFL biodegraded after 100 d. When the contaminated soil was inoculated with NMC or ABC consortia, TFL loss increased up to 62 % and 74 %, respectively, with DT50 values (required time for the pollutant concentration to decline to half of its initial value) of 5.9 and 11 d. In the case of soil inoculation with the isolated individual bacterial strains, the extent of TFL biodegradation ranged widely from 2.3 % to 55 %. The most efficient bacterial strain was Arthrobacter aurescens CTFL7 which had not been previously described in the literature as a TFL-degrading bacterium. Bioaugmentation with CTFL7 bacterium was also tested in the presence of RAMEB, provoking a drastic increase in herbicide biodegradation up to 88 %, achieving a DT50 of only 19 d. Cyclodextrins had never been tested before for enhancement of TFL biodegradation. An ecotoxicity assay was performed to confirm that the proposed bioremediation techniques were also capable to reduce toxicity. A Microtox® test showed that after application A. aurescens CTF7 and A. aurescens CTF7 + RAMEB, the TFL-contaminated soil, which initially presented acute toxicity, became non-toxic at the end of the biodegradation experiments.
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- A Lara-Moreno
- Institute of Natural Resources and Agrobiology of Seville, Spanish National Research Council (IRNAS-CSIC), Department of Agrochemistry, Environmental Microbiology and Soil Conservation, Seville, Spain; Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Seville, Seville, Spain
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- Institute of Natural Resources and Agrobiology of Seville, Spanish National Research Council (IRNAS-CSIC), Department of Agrochemistry, Environmental Microbiology and Soil Conservation, Seville, Spain
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- Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Seville, Seville, Spain
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- Institute of Natural Resources and Agrobiology of Seville, Spanish National Research Council (IRNAS-CSIC), Department of Agrochemistry, Environmental Microbiology and Soil Conservation, Seville, Spain
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- Institute of Natural Resources and Agrobiology of Seville, Spanish National Research Council (IRNAS-CSIC), Department of Agrochemistry, Environmental Microbiology and Soil Conservation, Seville, Spain.
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Silva Ribeiro D, Vilela Corrêa F, Rafanele França Pinto P, Thebaldi MS, Ponciano De Deus F, Valentim Diotto A. Modeling and simulation of trifluralin herbicide movement due to its application on soils by chemigation. REVISTA BRASILEIRA DE ENGENHARIA DE BIOSSISTEMAS 2022. [DOI: 10.18011/bioeng.2022.v16.1098] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/01/2022] Open
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The Trifluralin (TFN) is a pre-emergent herbicide which is widely used in agriculture. Usually, this pesticide is directly applied to the soil, where it can remain for long periods or can be transported. In this sense, knowing the dynamics of an herbicide soil transport is essential to avoid environmental contamination problems and risks to human health. Thus, this study aims to model and simulate TFN movement on soils with two different textures, a sandy loam and clay loam soil. It was considered that the herbicide was applied via chemigation trough a subsurface drip irrigation system, under a non-steady regime. Therefore, the transport parameters of TFN in these soils and physical-hydric characteristics of these were used, while the physical environment modeling were conducted using the Hydrus 2D software. The results showed that both in sandy and clayey soils, the TFN tends to be retained by the soil, close to where it was applied, not exceeding a layer greater than 2.5 mm outside the dripper radius, even in more favorable conditions such as the presence of irrigation. Finally, it could be concluded that this herbicide movement in the soil is of low potential, due to this product high solid-liquid partition coefficient (Kd), even in sandy soil, which has low cation exchange capacity (CEC).
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Barber DM. A Competitive Edge: Competitor Inspired Scaffold Hopping in Herbicide Lead Optimization. JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD CHEMISTRY 2022; 70:11075-11090. [PMID: 35271269 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.1c07910] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Over the years, scaffold hopping has proven to be a powerful tool in the agrochemical optimization process. It offers the opportunity to modify known molecular lead structures to improve a range of parameters, including biological efficacy and spectrum, physicochemical properties, toxicity, stability, and to secure new intellectual property. Very often the disclosure of a new chemical structure can spark a multitude of competitor activities, where scaffold hopping plays a crucial role in the optimization process as well as for the generation of new intellectual property. Herein, recent examples of scaffold hopping in early phase herbicide research based on competitor inspired activities will be discussed using examples of how these research campaigns can often result in the registration of new crop protection products.
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- David M Barber
- Research and Development, Weed Control Chemistry, Bayer AG, Crop Science Division, Industriepark Höchst, 65926 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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Wang Y, Xiong Y, Garcia EAL, Wang Y, Butch CJ. Drug Chemical Space as a Guide for New Herbicide Development: A Cheminformatic Analysis. JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD CHEMISTRY 2022; 70:9625-9636. [PMID: 35915870 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.2c01425] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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Herbicides are critical resources for meeting agricultural demand. While similar in structure and function to pharmaceuticals, the development of new herbicidal mechanisms of action and new scaffolds against known mechanisms of action has been much slower than in pharmaceutical sciences. We hypothesized that this may be due in part to a relative undersampling of possible herbicidal chemistries and set out to test whether this difference in sampling existed and whether increasing the diversity of possible herbicidal chemistries would be likely to result in more efficacious herbicides. To conduct this work, we first identified databases of commercially available herbicides and clinically approved pharmaceuticals. Using these databases, we created a two-dimensional embedding of the chemical, which provides a qualitative visualization of the degree to which each chemotype is distributed within the combined chemical space and shows a moderate degree of overlap between the two sets. Next, we trained several machine learning models to classify herbicides versus drugs based on physicochemical characteristics. The most accurate of these models has an accuracy of 93% with the key differentiating characteristics being the number of polar hydrogens, number of amide bonds, LogP, and polar surface area. We then used several types of scaffold decomposition to quantitatively evaluate the chemical diversity of each molecular family and showed herbicides to have considerably fewer unique structural fragments. Finally, we used molecular docking as an in silico evaluation of further structural diversification in herbicide development. To this end, we identified herbicides with well-characterized binding sites and modified those scaffolds based on similar structural subunits from the drug dataset not present in any commercial herbicide while using the machine-learned model to ensure that required herbicide properties were maintained. Redocking the original and modified scaffolds of several herbicides showed that even this simple design strategy is capable of yielding new molecules with higher predicted affinity for the target enzymes. Overall, we show that herbicides are distinct from drugs based on physicochemical properties but less diverse in their chemistry in a way not governed by these properties. We also demonstrate in silico that increasing the diversity of herbicide scaffolds has the potential to increase potency, potentially reducing the amount needed in agricultural practice.
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- Yisheng Wang
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Life Science, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Life Science, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Life Science, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Life Science, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China
- Blue Marble Space Institute for Science, Seattle, Washington 98104, United States
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Alexandrino DAM, Almeida CMR, Mucha AP, Carvalho MF. Revisiting pesticide pollution: The case of fluorinated pesticides. ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION (BARKING, ESSEX : 1987) 2022; 292:118315. [PMID: 34634397 DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2021.118315] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/16/2021] [Revised: 09/11/2021] [Accepted: 10/06/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Fluorinated pesticides acquired a significant market share in the agrochemical sector due to the surge of new fluoroorganic ingredients approved in the last two decades. This growing trend has not been accompanied by a comprehensive scientific and regulatory framework entailing all their potential negative impacts for the environment, especially when considering the hazardous properties that may result from the incorporation of fluorine into organic molecules. This review aims to address the safe/hazardous dichotomy associated with fluorinated pesticides by providing an updated outlook on their relevancy in the agrochemical sector and how it leads to their role as environmental pollutants. Specifically, the environmental fate and distribution of these pesticides in the ecosystems is discussed, while also analysing their potential to act as toxic substances for non-target organisms.
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- Diogo A M Alexandrino
- CIIMAR - Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research, University of Porto, Terminal de Cruzeiros do Porto de Leixões, Avenida General Norton de Matos s/n, 4450-208, Matosinhos, Portugal; School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences (ICBAS), University of Porto, Rua de Jorge Viterbo Ferreira 228, 4050-313, Porto, Portugal.
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- CIIMAR - Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research, University of Porto, Terminal de Cruzeiros do Porto de Leixões, Avenida General Norton de Matos s/n, 4450-208, Matosinhos, Portugal
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- CIIMAR - Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research, University of Porto, Terminal de Cruzeiros do Porto de Leixões, Avenida General Norton de Matos s/n, 4450-208, Matosinhos, Portugal; Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto, Rua do Campo Alegre 790, 4150-171, Porto, Portugal
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- CIIMAR - Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research, University of Porto, Terminal de Cruzeiros do Porto de Leixões, Avenida General Norton de Matos s/n, 4450-208, Matosinhos, Portugal; School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences (ICBAS), University of Porto, Rua de Jorge Viterbo Ferreira 228, 4050-313, Porto, Portugal
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Li Y, Li C, Li B, Ma Z. Trifluralin residues in soils from main cotton fields of China and associated ecological risk. CHEMOSPHERE 2021; 284:131300. [PMID: 34225126 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2021.131300] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/07/2021] [Revised: 06/16/2021] [Accepted: 06/17/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Trifluralin is a widely used dinitroaniline herbicide in cotton fields of China but is highly persistent in the environment and can act as a biotoxin and cause genotoxicity to terrestrial organisms, including humans. In this study, the concentrations and distribution of trifluralin residues in 139 soil samples from the major cotton-producing areas of China were investigated. The trifluralin concentrations ranged from ND (not detected) to 66.39 μg/kg dry weight (dw), with a geometric mean of 4.13 μg/kg dw. The detection frequency of trifluralin in Hebei (75%) was higher than that in Xinjiang (66%) and Shandong (40%), but the mean trifluralin concentration was highest in Xinjiang (5.98 μg/kg dw), followed by Hebei (5.06 μg/kg dw) and Shandong (3.19 μg/kg dw). No trifluralin residues were detected in cotton soil in Anhui, Jiangxi and Hunan. The residual amount of trifluralin in soil was significantly correlated with the soil organic matter content. The risk quotient method was used to evaluate the ecological risks associated with trifluralin. Results indicated that trifluralin in all the samples had a low risk to earthworms, but trifluralin in same cotton soils showed high risks to wheat, barley and lucerne. Overall, our work is helpful to understand the residual situation of trifluralin in Chinese cotton soil, to assess the environmental risk of trifluralin, and to control the use and safety of trifluralin in cotton field cultivation.
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- Yang Li
- Beijing Research Center for Agricultural Standards and Testing, Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences, Beijing, 100097, China; Risk Assessment Lab for Agro-products (Beijing), Ministry of Agriculture PR China, Beijing, 100097, China
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- Beijing Research Center for Agricultural Standards and Testing, Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences, Beijing, 100097, China; Risk Assessment Lab for Agro-products (Beijing), Ministry of Agriculture PR China, Beijing, 100097, China
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- Beijing Research Center for Agricultural Standards and Testing, Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences, Beijing, 100097, China; Risk Assessment Lab for Agro-products (Beijing), Ministry of Agriculture PR China, Beijing, 100097, China
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- Beijing Research Center for Agricultural Standards and Testing, Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences, Beijing, 100097, China; Risk Assessment Lab for Agro-products (Beijing), Ministry of Agriculture PR China, Beijing, 100097, China.
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González-Torralva F, Norsworthy JK. Understanding Resistance Mechanisms to Trifluralin in an Arkansas Palmer Amaranth Population. Genes (Basel) 2021; 12:genes12081225. [PMID: 34440399 PMCID: PMC8394034 DOI: 10.3390/genes12081225] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2021] [Revised: 08/05/2021] [Accepted: 08/05/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Amaranthus palmeri S. Watson (Palmer amaranth) is considered a problematic and troublesome weed species in many crops in the USA, partly because of its ability to evolve resistance to herbicides. In this study, we explored the mechanism of resistance in a trifluralin-resistant A. palmeri accession collected from Arkansas, USA. Dose-response assays using agar plates demonstrated an EC50 (effective concentration that reduces root length by 50%) of 1.02 µM trifluralin compared to 0.39 µM obtained in the susceptible accession. Thus, under these conditions, the resistant accession required 2.6 times more trifluralin to inhibit root length by 50%. Seeds in the presence or absence of the cytochrome P450-inhibitior malathion displayed a differential response with no significant influence on root length, suggesting that resistance is not P450-mediated. In addition, application of 4-chloro-7-nitrobenzofurazan (NBD-Cl), a glutathione S-transferase (GST) inhibitor, showed significant differences in root length, indicating that GSTs are most likely involved in the resistance mechanism. Sequencing of α- and β-tubulin genes revealed no single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) previously described between accessions. In addition, relative gene copy number of α- and β-tubulin genes were estimated; however, both resistant and susceptible accessions displayed similar gene copy numbers. Overall, our results revealed that GST-mediated metabolism contributes to trifluralin resistance in this A. palmeri accession from Arkansas.
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Synthetic approaches to the 2015-2018 new agrochemicals. Bioorg Med Chem 2021; 39:116162. [PMID: 33895705 DOI: 10.1016/j.bmc.2021.116162] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/08/2021] [Revised: 04/03/2021] [Accepted: 04/07/2021] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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In this review, the synthesis of 33 agrochemicals that received an international standardization organization (ISO) name between January 2015 and December 2018 is described. The aim is to showcase the broad range and scope of reactions, reagents and intermediates used to discover and produce the latest active ingredients addressing the crop protection industry's needs.
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Chen J, Yu Q, Patterson E, Sayer C, Powles S. Dinitroaniline Herbicide Resistance and Mechanisms in Weeds. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2021; 12:634018. [PMID: 33841462 PMCID: PMC8027333 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2021.634018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/27/2020] [Accepted: 03/08/2021] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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Dinitroanilines are microtubule inhibitors, targeting tubulin proteins in plants and protists. Dinitroaniline herbicides, such as trifluralin, pendimethalin and oryzalin, have been used as pre-emergence herbicides for weed control for decades. With widespread resistance to post-emergence herbicides in weeds, the use of pre-emergence herbicides such as dinitroanilines has increased, in part, due to relatively slow evolution of resistance in weeds to these herbicides. Target-site resistance (TSR) to dinitroaniline herbicides due to point mutations in α-tubulin genes has been confirmed in a few weedy plant species (e.g., Eleusine indica, Setaria viridis, and recently in Lolium rigidum). Of particular interest is the resistance mutation Arg-243-Met identified from dinitroaniline-resistant L. rigidum that causes helical growth when plants are homozygous for the mutation. The recessive nature of the TSR, plus possible fitness cost for some resistance mutations, likely slows resistance evolution. Furthermore, non-target-site resistance (NTSR) to dinitroanilines has been rarely reported and only confirmed in Lolium rigidum due to enhanced herbicide metabolism (metabolic resistance). A cytochrome P450 gene (CYP81A10) has been recently identified in L. rigidum that confers resistance to trifluralin. Moreover, TSR and NTSR have been shown to co-exist in the same weedy species, population, and plant. The implication of knowledge and information on TSR and NTSR in management of dinitroaniline resistance is discussed.
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- Jinyi Chen
- Australian Herbicide Resistance Initiative (AHRI), School of Agriculture and Environment, University of Western Australia (UWA), Perth, WA, Australia
- Department of Plant, Soil, and Microbial Sciences, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States
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- Australian Herbicide Resistance Initiative (AHRI), School of Agriculture and Environment, University of Western Australia (UWA), Perth, WA, Australia
- *Correspondence: Qin Yu,
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- Department of Plant, Soil, and Microbial Sciences, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States
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- Nufarm Limited, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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- Australian Herbicide Resistance Initiative (AHRI), School of Agriculture and Environment, University of Western Australia (UWA), Perth, WA, Australia
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Busi R, Goggin DE, Onofri A, Boutsalis P, Preston C, Powles SB, Beckie HJ. Loss of trifluralin metabolic resistance in Lolium rigidum plants exposed to prosulfocarb recurrent selection. PEST MANAGEMENT SCIENCE 2020; 76:3926-3934. [PMID: 32638493 DOI: 10.1002/ps.5993] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2020] [Revised: 06/29/2020] [Accepted: 07/08/2020] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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BACKGROUND Resistance to the dinitroaniline herbicide trifluralin in Lolium rigidum (annual ryegrass) often is mediated by the enhanced capacity to metabolize the herbicide to less toxic polar conjugates and/or by functionally recessive target-site mutations in α-tubulin. RESULTS In two L. rigidum populations possessing enhanced trifluralin metabolism, resistance was largely reversed by recurrent selection with the thiocarbamate herbicide prosulfocarb (i.e. plant survival was two- to >20-fold lower). Their ability to metabolize trifluralin was significantly decreased (by ≈2.3-fold) following recurrent prosulfocarb selection, to levels comparable to those observed in susceptible plants or when trifluralin metabolism was inhibited by treatment with the insecticide phorate. CONCLUSIONS This study provides evidence that trait(s) enabling efficient trifluralin metabolism in L. rigidum are purged from the population under prosulfocarb recurrent selection. The level of trifluralin metabolism in vitro and its inhibition caused by phorate action on trifluralin-metabolizing enzyme(s) is equivalent to the effect produced by prosulfocarb selection. The hypothetical link between the two phenomena is that the putative monooxygenase(s) conferring trifluralin metabolic resistance also mediate the activation of prosulfocarb to its toxic sulfoxide. Thus, we speculate that survival to prosulfocarb via a lack of metabolic herbicide activation, and survival to trifluralin conferred by enhanced herbicide metabolism, are mutually exclusive. These findings not only open up a new research direction in terms of the interaction between different herbicide resistance mechanisms in L. rigidum, but also offer strategies for immediate management of the population dynamics of metabolism-based resistance in the field. © 2020 Society of Chemical Industry.
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- Roberto Busi
- Australian Herbicide Resistance Initiative, School of Agriculture and Environment, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia
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- Australian Herbicide Resistance Initiative, School of Agriculture and Environment, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia
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- Department of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Sciences, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy
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- School of Agriculture, Food and Wine, University of Adelaide, Glen Osmond, South Australia, Australia
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- School of Agriculture, Food and Wine, University of Adelaide, Glen Osmond, South Australia, Australia
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- Australian Herbicide Resistance Initiative, School of Agriculture and Environment, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia
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- Australian Herbicide Resistance Initiative, School of Agriculture and Environment, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia
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Ogawa Y, Tokunaga E, Kobayashi O, Hirai K, Shibata N. Current Contributions of Organofluorine Compounds to the Agrochemical Industry. iScience 2020; 23:101467. [PMID: 32891056 PMCID: PMC7479632 DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2020.101467] [Citation(s) in RCA: 417] [Impact Index Per Article: 104.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2020] [Revised: 07/29/2020] [Accepted: 08/12/2020] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Currently, more than 1,200 agrochemicals are listed and many of these are regularly used by farmers to generate the food supply to support the expanding global population. However, resistance to pesticides is an ever more frequently occurring phenomenon, and thus, a continuous supply of novel agrochemicals with high efficiency, selectivity, and low toxicity is required. Moreover, the demand for a more sustainable society, by reducing the risk chemicals pose to human health and by minimizing their environmental footprint, renders the development of novel agrochemicals an ever more challenging undertaking. In the last two decades, fluoro-chemicals have been associated with significant advances in the agrochemical development process. We herein analyze the contribution that organofluorine compounds make to the agrochemical industry. Our database covers 424 fluoro-agrochemicals and is subdivided into several categories including chemotypes, mode of action, heterocycles, and chirality. This in-depth analysis reveals the unique relationship between fluorine and agrochemicals.
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- Yuta Ogawa
- Department of Nanopharmaceutical Sciences & Department of Life Science and Applied Chemistry, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Gokiso, Showa-ku, Nagoya 466-8555, Japan
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- Department of Nanopharmaceutical Sciences & Department of Life Science and Applied Chemistry, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Gokiso, Showa-ku, Nagoya 466-8555, Japan
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- Sagami Chemical Research Institute, 2743-1 Hayakawa, Ayase, Kanagawa 252-1193, Japan
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- Sagami Chemical Research Institute, 2743-1 Hayakawa, Ayase, Kanagawa 252-1193, Japan
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- Department of Nanopharmaceutical Sciences & Department of Life Science and Applied Chemistry, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Gokiso, Showa-ku, Nagoya 466-8555, Japan
- Institute of Advanced Fluorine-Containing Materials, Zhejiang Normal University, 688 Yingbin Avenue, 321004 Jinhua, China
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Coleman NV, Rich DJ, Tang FHM, Vervoort RW, Maggi F. Biodegradation and Abiotic Degradation of Trifluralin: A Commonly Used Herbicide with a Poorly Understood Environmental Fate. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2020; 54:10399-10410. [PMID: 32786599 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.0c02070] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Trifluralin is a widely used dinitroaniline herbicide, which can persist in the environment and has substantial ecotoxicity, especially to aquatic organisms. Trifluralin is very insoluble in water (0.22 mg/L at 20 °C) and highly volatile (vapor pressure of 6.7 mPa at 20 °C); these physicochemical properties determine a large part of its environmental fate, which includes rapid loss from soils if surface-applied, strong binding to soil organic matter, and negligible leaching into water. The trifluralin structure contains a tertiary amino group, two nitro-groups and a trifluoromethyl- group. Despite the strongly xenobiotic character of some of these substituents, biodegradation of trifluralin does occur, and pure cultures of bacteria and fungi capable of partially degrading the molecule either by dealkylation or nitro-group reduction have been identified. There are many unanswered questions about the environmental fate and metabolism of this herbicide; the genes and enzymes responsible for biodegradation are largely unknown, the relative roles of abiotic processes vs growth-linked biodegradation vs cometabolism are unresolved, and the impact of different environmental factors on the rates and extents of biodegradation are not clear. Here, we summarize the relevant literature on the persistence and environmental fate of trifluralin with a focus on biodegradation pathways and mechanisms, and we identify the current major knowledge gaps for future research.
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- Nicholas V Coleman
- School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Building F22, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 2006
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- School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Building F22, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 2006
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- Laboratory for Advanced Environmental Engineering Research, School of Civil Engineering, Building J05, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 2006
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- School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Building C81, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 2006
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- Laboratory for Advanced Environmental Engineering Research, School of Civil Engineering, Building J05, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 2006
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Obenland OA, Riechers DE. Identification of chromosomes in Triticum aestivum possessing genes that confer tolerance to the synthetic auxin herbicide halauxifen-methyl. Sci Rep 2020; 10:8713. [PMID: 32457385 PMCID: PMC7250930 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-65434-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/24/2020] [Accepted: 05/05/2020] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Natural tolerance in hexaploid bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) to synthetic auxin herbicides is primarily due to rapid metabolic detoxification, but genes encoding these herbicide-detoxifying enzymes have yet to be identified. Herbicide safeners are commonly applied in wheat to achieve herbicide tolerance by inducing the expression and activity of herbicide-detoxifying enzymes. While safeners have been utilized for decades, knowledge of mechanisms that induce gene expression is limited. Our objective was to identify wheat chromosomes possessing genes that endow natural or safener-induced tolerance to halauxifen-methyl (HM), a postemergence (POST) wheat-selective synthetic auxin herbicide, using alien substitution (the S genome of Aegilops searsii) and aneuploid lines. Two POST rates of HM were applied to seedlings with 1-2 leaves (Zadoks stages 11-12), and the highest HM rate was also applied with the safener cloquintocet-mexyl (CM). Wheat chromosomes possessing genes associated only with natural HM tolerance were identified because Ae. searsii is HM-sensitive but CM-responsive. Lines with substitutions for 5A and 5B displayed sensitivity to HM, and experiments with nullisomic-tetrasomic (NT) lines further indicated major genes associated with HM tolerance are present on 5A and 5B chromosomes. However, the genes on 5A appear to play a larger role because lines lacking 5A chromosomes displayed more sensitivity than lines lacking 5B. Overall, these results can be utilized to guide future transcriptome analyses to identify candidate genes that confer HM tolerance in wheat.
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- Olivia A Obenland
- Department of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, USA
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- Department of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, USA.
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Camacho FG, de Souza PAL, Martins ML, Benincá C, Zanoelo EF. A comprehensive kinetic model for the process of electrochemical peroxidation and its application for the degradation of trifluralin. J Electroanal Chem (Lausanne) 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jelechem.2020.114163] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Lai Z, Guo X, Cheng Z, Ruan G, Du F. Green Synthesis of Fluorescent Carbon Dots from Cherry Tomatoes for Highly Effective Detection of Trifluralin Herbicide in Soil Samples. ChemistrySelect 2020. [DOI: 10.1002/slct.201904517] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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- Zhan Lai
- Guangxi Key Laboratory of Electrochemical and Magnetochemical Functional Materials College of Chemistry and Bioengineering Guilin University of Technology Guilin 541004 China
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- Guangxi Key Laboratory of Electrochemical and Magnetochemical Functional Materials College of Chemistry and Bioengineering Guilin University of Technology Guilin 541004 China
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- Guangxi Key Laboratory of Electrochemical and Magnetochemical Functional Materials College of Chemistry and Bioengineering Guilin University of Technology Guilin 541004 China
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- Guangxi Key Laboratory of Electrochemical and Magnetochemical Functional Materials College of Chemistry and Bioengineering Guilin University of Technology Guilin 541004 China
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- Guangxi Key Laboratory of Electrochemical and Magnetochemical Functional Materials College of Chemistry and Bioengineering Guilin University of Technology Guilin 541004 China
- College of Biological and Environmental Engineering Changsha University Changsha 410022 PR China
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Fennimore SA, Cutulle M. Robotic weeders can improve weed control options for specialty crops. PEST MANAGEMENT SCIENCE 2019; 75:1767-1774. [PMID: 30653830 DOI: 10.1002/ps.5337] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/26/2018] [Revised: 01/11/2019] [Accepted: 01/12/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Specialty crop herbicides are not a priority for the agrochemical industry, and many of these crops do not have access to effective herbicides. High-value fruit and vegetable crops represent small markets and high potential liability in the case of herbicide-induced crop damage. Meanwhile, conventional and organic specialty crop producers are experiencing labor shortages and higher manual weeding costs. Robotic weeders are promising new weed control tools for specialty crops, because they are cheaper to develop and, with fewer environmental and human health risks, are less regulated than herbicides. Now is the time for greater investment in robotic weeders as new herbicides are expensive to develop and few in number, organic crops need better weed control technology and governments are demanding reduced use of pesticides. Public funding of fundamental research on robotic weeder technology can help improve weed and crop recognition, weed control actuators, and expansion of weed science curricula to train students in this technology. Robotic weeders can expand the array of tools available to specialty crop growers. However, the development of robotic weeders will require a broader recognition that these tools are a viable path to create new weed control tools for specialty crops. © 2019 Society of Chemical Industry.
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- Steven A Fennimore
- Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis, Salinas, CA, USA
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- Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Coastal Research and Education Center, Clemson University, Charleston, SC, USA
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Paril JF, Fournier-Level AJ. instaGraminoid, a Novel Colorimetric Method to Assess Herbicide Resistance, Identifies Patterns of Cross-Resistance in Annual Ryegrass. PLANT PHENOMICS (WASHINGTON, D.C.) 2019; 2019:7937156. [PMID: 33313537 PMCID: PMC7718631 DOI: 10.34133/2019/7937156] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2018] [Accepted: 04/07/2019] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Herbicide resistance in agricultural weeds is a global problem with an increasing understanding that it is caused by multiple genes leading to quantitative resistance. These quantitative patterns of resistance are not easy to decipher with mortality assays alone, and there is a need for straightforward and unbiased protocols to accurately assess quantitative herbicide resistance. instaGraminoid-a computer vision and statistical analysis package-was developed as an automated and scalable method for quantifying herbicide resistance. The package was tested in rigid ryegrass (Lolium rigidum), the most noxious and highly resistant weed in Australia and the Mediterranean region. This method provides quantitative measures of the degree of chlorosis and necrosis of individual plants which was shown to accurately reflect herbicide resistance. We were able to reliably characterise resistance to four herbicides with different sites of action (glyphosate, sulfometuron, terbuthylazine, and trifluralin) in two L. rigidum populations from Southeast Australia. Cross-validation of the method across populations and herbicide treatments showed high repeatability and transferability. Significant positive correlations in resistance of individual plants were observed across herbicides, which suggest either the accumulation of herbicide-specific resistance alleles in single genotypes (multiple stacked resistance) or the presence of general broad-effects resistance alleles (cross-resistance). We used these quantitative estimates of cross-resistance to simulate how resistance development under an herbicide rotation strategy is likely to be higher than expected.
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- Jefferson F. Paril
- School of Biosciences, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia
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Busi R, Goggin DE, Heap IM, Horak MJ, Jugulam M, Masters RA, Napier RM, Riar DS, Satchivi NM, Torra J, Westra P, Wright TR. Weed resistance to synthetic auxin herbicides. PEST MANAGEMENT SCIENCE 2018; 74:2265-2276. [PMID: 29235732 PMCID: PMC6175398 DOI: 10.1002/ps.4823] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2017] [Revised: 12/05/2017] [Accepted: 12/07/2017] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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Herbicides classified as synthetic auxins have been most commonly used to control broadleaf weeds in a variety of crops and in non-cropland areas since the first synthetic auxin herbicide (SAH), 2,4-D, was introduced to the market in the mid-1940s. The incidence of weed species resistant to SAHs is relatively low considering their long-term global application with 30 broadleaf, 5 grass, and 1 grass-like weed species confirmed resistant to date. An understanding of the context and mechanisms of SAH resistance evolution can inform management practices to sustain the longevity and utility of this important class of herbicides. A symposium was convened during the 2nd Global Herbicide Resistance Challenge (May 2017; Denver, CO, USA) to provide an overview of the current state of knowledge of SAH resistance mechanisms including case studies of weed species resistant to SAHs and perspectives on mitigating resistance development in SAH-tolerant crops. © 2017 The Authors. Pest Management Science published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Society of Chemical Industry.
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- Roberto Busi
- Australian Herbicide Resistance Initiative, School of Agriculture and EnvironmentUniversity of Western AustraliaPerthAustralia
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- Australian Herbicide Resistance Initiative, School of Agriculture and EnvironmentUniversity of Western AustraliaPerthAustralia
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- International Survey of Herbicide‐Resistant WeedsCorvallisORUSA
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- Department of Horticulture, Botany and GardeningUniversity of LleidaLleidaSpain
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- Department of Bioagricultural Sciences and Pest ManagementColorado State UniversityFort CollinsCOUSA
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Devendar P, Qu RY, Kang WM, He B, Yang GF. Palladium-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling Reactions: A Powerful Tool for the Synthesis of Agrochemicals. JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD CHEMISTRY 2018; 66:8914-8934. [PMID: 30060657 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.8b03792] [Citation(s) in RCA: 190] [Impact Index Per Article: 31.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Pd-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions have become essential tools for the construction of carbon-carbon and carbon-heteroatom bonds. Over the last three decades, great efforts have been made with cross-coupling chemistry in the discovery, development, and commercialization of innovative new pharmaceuticals and agrochemicals (mainly herbicides, fungicides, and insecticides). In view of the growing interest in both modern crop protection and cross-coupling chemistry, this review gives a comprehensive overview of the successful applications of various Pd-catalyzed cross-coupling methodologies, which have been implemented as key steps in the synthesis of agrochemicals (on R&D and pilot-plant scales) such as the Heck, Suzuki, Sonogashira, Stille, and Negishi reactions, as well as decarboxylative, carbonylative, α-arylative, and carbon-nitrogen bond bond-forming cross-coupling reactions. Some perspectives and challenges for these catalytic coupling processes in the discovery of agrochemicals are briefly discussed in the final section. The examples chosen demonstrate that cross-coupling chemistry approaches open-up new, low-cost, and more efficient industrial routes to existing agrochemicals, and such methods also have the capability to lead the new generation of pesticides with novel modes of action for sustainable crop protection.
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- Ponnam Devendar
- Key Laboratory of Pesticide & Chemical Biology of Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry , Central China Normal University (CCNU) , Wuhan 430079 , P. R. China
- International Joint Research Center for Intelligent Biosensor Technology and Health , Central China Normal University (CCNU) , Wuhan 430079 , P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Pesticide & Chemical Biology of Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry , Central China Normal University (CCNU) , Wuhan 430079 , P. R. China
- International Joint Research Center for Intelligent Biosensor Technology and Health , Central China Normal University (CCNU) , Wuhan 430079 , P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Pesticide & Chemical Biology of Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry , Central China Normal University (CCNU) , Wuhan 430079 , P. R. China
- International Joint Research Center for Intelligent Biosensor Technology and Health , Central China Normal University (CCNU) , Wuhan 430079 , P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Pesticide & Chemical Biology of Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry , Central China Normal University (CCNU) , Wuhan 430079 , P. R. China
- International Joint Research Center for Intelligent Biosensor Technology and Health , Central China Normal University (CCNU) , Wuhan 430079 , P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Pesticide & Chemical Biology of Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry , Central China Normal University (CCNU) , Wuhan 430079 , P. R. China
- International Joint Research Center for Intelligent Biosensor Technology and Health , Central China Normal University (CCNU) , Wuhan 430079 , P. R. China
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering , Tianjin 300071 , P. R. China
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Chen J, Goggin D, Han H, Busi R, Yu Q, Powles S. Enhanced Trifluralin Metabolism Can Confer Resistance in Lolium rigidum. JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD CHEMISTRY 2018; 66:7589-7596. [PMID: 29965748 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.8b02283] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/11/2023]
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Resistance to the pre-emergence herbicide trifluralin is increasing in Australian annual ryegrass ( Lolium rigidum) populations. Three L. rigidum populations (R1, R2, and R3) collected from Australian grain fields were identified with trifluralin resistance. Both target-site and nontarget-site resistance mechanisms were investigated. No target-site α-tubulin mutations were detected in populations R1 and R3, while an Arg-243-Lys mutation was found in R2. Compared with the three trifluralin-susceptible populations, enhanced [14C]-trifluralin metabolism, quantified by measuring the amount of [14C] label partitioning into the polar phase of a hexane:methanol system, was identified in all the three resistant populations. This is the first report of metabolic resistance to trifluralin. Coevolution of target-site and nontarget-site resistance to trifluralin is occurring, and metabolic resistance is not rare in L. rigidum populations in Australia. A method was established for trifluralin metabolic resistance detection, overcoming the difficulties of quantifying this highly volatile herbicide by chromatographic methods.
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- Jinyi Chen
- Australian Herbicide Resistance Initiative, School of Agriculture & Environment , University of Western Australia , Crawley , Western Australia 6009 , Australia
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- Australian Herbicide Resistance Initiative, School of Agriculture & Environment , University of Western Australia , Crawley , Western Australia 6009 , Australia
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- Australian Herbicide Resistance Initiative, School of Agriculture & Environment , University of Western Australia , Crawley , Western Australia 6009 , Australia
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- Australian Herbicide Resistance Initiative, School of Agriculture & Environment , University of Western Australia , Crawley , Western Australia 6009 , Australia
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- Australian Herbicide Resistance Initiative, School of Agriculture & Environment , University of Western Australia , Crawley , Western Australia 6009 , Australia
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- Australian Herbicide Resistance Initiative, School of Agriculture & Environment , University of Western Australia , Crawley , Western Australia 6009 , Australia
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