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ametryn; analytical methods; aquatic environment; atrazine; chemical species; chronic exposure; databases; detection limit; human health; rivers; wastewater; China
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... Long-term exposure of contaminants to emerging concern (CECs) may pose risks to human health and ecosystems, even at low concentrations. Rivers impacted by both agricultural and urban activities experience distinctive environmental pressures due to receiving wastewaters that contain complex organics and their transformation products (TPs). In this study, we developed a regional database composed o ...
ametryn; atrazine; diuron; hexazinone; marine pollution; photosystem II; risk assessment; tebuthiuron; temporal variation; water quality; Great Barrier Reef
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... The Marine Monitoring Program (MMP) was established in 2005 to monitor the inshore health of the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) and evaluate progress towards water quality objectives in Reef Water Quality Improvement Plans. The MMP provides information on the magnitude and spatial extent of pesticide contamination, reports on temporal variability, and provides a risk assessment for the biota in the GBR ...
ametryn; dissolved organic matter; half life; imidacloprid; models; pH; photolysis; pollution; research; rivers; singlet oxygen; solar radiation; surface water; Brazil
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... In addition to direct photolysis studies, in this work the second-order reaction rate constants of pesticides imidacloprid (IMD) and ametryn (AMT) with hydroxyl radicals (HO●), singlet oxygen (¹O₂), and triplet excited states of chromophoric dissolved organic matter (³CDOM*) were determined by kinetic competition under sunlight. IMD and AMT exhibited low photolysis quantum yields: (1.23 ± 0.07) × ...
... ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporter is a large genes superfamily. It involves transportation of diverse substrates (e.g., heavy metal, amino acids, pesticides, metabolites). The ABC transporters can be strongly induced by environmental stress and responsible for the phase III metabolic process of toxic compounds in plants. To investigate the potential molecular and biochemical function of ABC t ...
... The S-triazine herbicide ametryn (AMT) is relatively low adsorbed in soils and has high solubility in water, thus believed to affect non-target aquatic organisms such as amphibians. Temperature increases can intensify the effects of herbicides, possibly increasing the susceptibility of amphibians to these compounds. The aim of this study was to evaluate the influence of temperature (25 and 32 °C) ...
... Multiresidue quantitative and qualitative screening method for the analysis of pesticide residues in dried cocoa beans was validated and applied to imported and domestic cocoa beans samples. The quantitative method comprises of 15 pesticides while the screening method covers 110 pesticides of different chemical classes. The method was based on modified QuEChERS (Quick Easy Cheap Efficient Rugged S ...
ametryn; chemical species; chlorpyrifos; diniconazole; evaporation; fenpropathrin; flame ionization; fruit juices; fruits; liquid-phase microextraction; nitrogen; oxadiazon; pH; penconazole; solvents; volatilization
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... A new simple and efficient method has been developed for the ultra–preconcentration of multiclass pesticide residues including penconazole, chlorpyrifos, ametryn, clodinafop-propargyl, diniconazole, oxadiazon, and fenpropathrin from some fruit juice samples based on evaporation of the sedimented organic phase obtained from dispersive liquid–liquid microextraction. The enriched target analytes were ...
... An efficient sample preparation method, dispersive solid-phase microextraction–dispersive liquid–liquid microextraction, coupled to gas chromatography–flame ionization detector was developed for the extraction, preconcentration, and determination of six pesticides (ametryn, penconazole, oxadiazon, diniconazole, tebuconazole, and fenoxaprop-P-ethyl) in vegetable and fruit juice samples. In this stu ...
2,4-D; air; ametryn; atrazine; breathing; inhalation exposure; liquid chromatography; pendimethalin; safety equipment; sugarcane; tandem mass spectrometry; Eswatini
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... BACKGROUND: Serious concerns surround the potential risks resulting from inhalation exposure to pesticides amongst agricultural workers when mixing and applying these compounds. In Eswatini (formerly known as Swaziland), Southern Africa, pesticides are widely used to improve the yield and quality of sugar cane production, the largest contributor to the country's economy. We assessed applicators' i ...
... Ribeirão das Pedras, a 10-km-long stream from the source to mouth, is part of a predominantly urban catchment located in Campinas metropolitan area in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, and it is also surrounded by sugarcane farms. Monthly sampling of 31 selected emerging contaminants (ECs) was conducted for 1 year (October 2018 to October 2019) in five points, including the spring, agricultural, and ...
Pseudomonas; agricultural soils; ametryn; biodegradation; bioremediation; carbon; desmetryn; human health; liquid chromatography; metabolites; metribuzin; microbiology; pH; polluted soils; prometryn; salt concentration; simetryn; sulfoxides; temperature; China
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... Prometryne is a widely used herbicide in China to control annual grasses and broadleaf weeds. However, the stability of prometryne makes it difficult to be degraded, which poses a threat to human health. This study presents a bacterial strain isolated from soil samples with a prometryne application history, designated strain DY-1. Strain DY-1, identified as Pseudomonas sp., is capable of utilizing ...
... China is the largest mariculture producer in the world. In recent years, pharmaceuticals and pesticides have been widely used in mariculture activities; however, most studies have only focused on the occurrence of limited types of antibiotics and organochlorine pesticides. It is critical to comprehensively investigate the occurrence of pharmaceuticals and pesticides in mariculture areas and assess ...
... In this study, a multi-residue method was used to analyze 13 pesticides and 1 degradation product in surface and groundwater in the region with the largest sugar cane production in the world. The potential effects of individual pesticides and their mixtures, for aquatic life and human consumption, were evaluated. For the surface water, 2-hydroxy atrazine, diuron, carbendazim, tebuthiuron, and hexa ...
... QuEChERS and solid phase extraction (SPE) methods were optimized and applied for the extraction of triazines in fruit and vegetables. These extraction methods are easy, effective, rugged and safe. Also, they have the ability to purify the extracts which leads to lower detection limits and higher recoveries of the analytes. The analysis were conducted using liquid chromatography coupled to photodio ...
... Herein, an electrospun composite from poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) and Stevia extract as a cross-linked nanofibrous was prepared with incorporating Fe-metal organic framework@Au nanoparticles (MIL-88A@AuNPs). The final composite was characterized, and then used as an efficient sorbent in pipette-tip micro solid-phase extraction (PT-µSPE) of eight selected pesticides in food samples followed by HPLC-U ...
acetonitrile; adjuvants; adsorption; ametryn; atraton; chitosan; desmetryn; desorption; dimethametryn; hydrophilicity; lakes; liquid chromatography; melamine; pH; prometon; prometryn; river water; salt concentration; skeleton; solid phase extraction; solvents; sorbents; sustainable technology; tandem mass spectrometry; tap water
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... In the presented work, MIL-101(Cr) and chitosan were directly embedded on the skeleton of melamine sponge material using a simple and environmentally friendly method. Chitosan acts not only as an adhesive during the preparation of functionalized sponges, but also as an adsorption adjuvant in herbicide detection. Unlike other polymers, chitosan has excellent hydrophilicity and contains numerous ads ...
... Ametryn (AMT), one of the most widely used herbicides in agriculture, has been frequently detected as a micropollutant in many aquatic environments. AMT residue not only pollutes water but also acts as a precursor for the production of disinfection by-products (DBPs). This study systematically investigated the fate of AMT during the UV/chlorine process. It was observed that the combination of UV i ...
... The widespread use of current-use pesticides (CUPs) in modern agriculture has threatened the survival of aquatic organisms. Therefore, the residual levels, spatial distribution, and ecological risk assessment of 18 CUPs are investigated in an aquatic system of Shanghai. The aquatic system focused on a freshwater system that contains particles smaller than 0.45 μm in size, which are easily absorbed ...
... Weeds represent a significant problem in Thailand’s sugarcane production. The various cycles of sugarcane cultivation result in degrees of weed severity in which each species requires a different weed control method, the most popular of which is the post-emergence herbicide method. However, sugarcane farmers often use incorrect rates, and operators’ safety is missing or applications are not select ...
... The increasing demand for biofuels favored the expansion of sugarcane and, as a consequence, in the consumption of pesticides in Brazil. Amphibians are subject to pesticide exposure for occurring in or around sugarcane fields, and for breeding at the onset of the rainy season when pesticide consumption is common. We tested the hypothesis that herbicides used in sugarcane crops, although employed f ...
... Vegetables are consequently experiencing great yield losses due to weed infestation. Weed management is extremely important for sustainable crop production in all cropping systems. This review paper aimed to provide general information and alternative recommendations for the management of Parthenium hysterophorus weed by chemicals, adjuvants and plant extracts in okra. Different strategies have be ...
adsorption; ametryn; atraton; carbon nanotubes; carboxylation; corn; desorption; high performance liquid chromatography; melamine; prometon; prometryn; propazine; scanning electron microscopy; simetryn; solid phase extraction; solvents; sorbents; standard deviation; tandem mass spectrometry; ultrasonics
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... In the presented work, we proposed the use of polyvinylidene difluoride (PVDF) as a coupling agent to load MIL-101(Cr) and carboxylated multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) on the skeleton of melamine sponge (MeS) for the preparation of novel extraction media with high-efficiency. The morphology and structure of this composite were characterized by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) analyses. Th ...
... Human activities, particularly in large cities, can lead to pollution caused by micropollutants such as pesticides in water bodies, which have been recognized as serious threats to the environment and human health. The pollution level of six organophosphorus pesticides, three herbicides, and one bactericide in groundwater and the Wenyu River, and their fates in three sewage treatment plants (STPs) ...
Zea mays; ametryn; atrazine; chemical reactions; coatings; corn; detection limit; high performance liquid chromatography; hydrophobicity; leaves; prometon; prometryn; simazine
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... Triazine rings-containing porous aromatic framework (PAF-56p) was synthesized through a Friedel-Crafts reaction and investigated as a coating for the stir bar sorptive extraction (SBSE) of interest triazines. The triazine rings and conjugated groups in PAF-56p could interact with triazine rings-containing herbicides by hydrophobic and π-π interactions. The PAF-56p coated stir bar showed superior e ...
ametryn; atrazine; clothianidin; data analysis; data collection; diuron; ecotoxicology; environmental science; hexazinone; imidacloprid; land use; metolachlor; metsulfuron; pesticide metabolites; prometryn; risk; rivers; streams; sugarcane; technology; terbutryn; thiamethoxam; watersheds; Great Barrier Reef
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... Rivers discharging to the Great Barrier Reef carry complex pesticide mixtures. Here we present a first comprehensive ecotoxicological risk assessment using species sensitivity distributions (SSDs), explore how risk changes with time and land use, and identify the drivers of mixture risks. The analyzed data set comprises 50 different pesticides and pesticide metabolites that were analyzed in 3741 s ...
absorbance; ametryn; apple peels; automation; capillary electrophoresis; chemical species; detection limit; homogenization; liquids; micellar electrokinetic capillary chromatography; micelles
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... Liquid extraction surface analysis (LESA) has an advantage of directly sampling analytes on a surface, thus avoiding unnecessary dilution by homogenization of the bulk sample commonly practiced in solid sample analysis. By combining LESA with CE, the additional advantage of separating analytes before detection can be accomplished. For neutral molecules, MEKC needs to be used. Since the detection s ...
Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans; ametryn; aquatic organisms; chemical oxygen demand; dealkylation; humans; hydrogen peroxide; hydroxylation; iron; jarosite; mass spectrometry; oxidation
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... The investigation reports the application of biogenic jarosite, an iron hydroxy sulfate mineral in Fenton's Oxidation process. Ametryn, a herbicide detrimental to aquatic life and also to human is treated by Fenton's oxidation process using synthesized iron mineral, jarosite. The jarosite synthesis was carried out by using an isolated Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans bacterial strain with ferrous as ...
Oreochromis niloticus; World Health Organization; acceptable daily intake; ametryn; body weight; diuron; fish; fish consumption; hexazinone; humans; muscle tissues; risk; risk estimate; runoff; sugar industry; sugarcane; tebuthiuron
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... The practice of intensive herbicide use in the sugarcane industry has a high risk of compromising the quality of the water and the organisms that live there due to losses through runoff, leaching and other processes. In this work, the dynamics of four herbicides present in three different mixtures were evaluated through their incorporation and elimination in the muscle tissue of tilapia (Oreochrom ...
... This study examined the feasibility of applying thermal-activated persulfate (PS) oxidation for remediation of soil co-contaminated with s-triazine herbicides including Atrazine (ATZ), Simazine (SIM) and Ametryn (AME). Homogeneous activation using heating method (50 °C) was selected. Results showed that thermal-activated PS oxidation process may successfully degrade ATZ in soil and degradation eff ...
Dirce Martins de Oliveira; Rodrigo Pereira Cavalcante; Lucas de Melo da Silva; Carme Sans; Santiago Esplugas; Silvio Cesar de Oliveira; Amilcar Machulek Junior
... This paper reports the degradation of 10 mg L⁻¹ Ametryn solution with different advanced oxidation processes and by ultraviolet (UV₂₅₄) irradiation alone with the main objective of reducing acute toxicity and increase biodegradability. The investigated factors included Fe²⁺ and H₂O₂ concentrations. The effectiveness of the UV₂₅₄ and UV₂₅₄/H₂O₂ processes were investigated using a low-pressure mercu ...
Hypsiboas; Physalaemus; United States Environmental Protection Agency; acetochlor; active ingredients; acute toxicity; ametryn; biodiversity; crop production; databases; fish; frogs; glyphosate; herbicide resistance; lethal concentration 50; metribuzin; pesticide application; sugarcane; tadpoles
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... Despite the high amphibian biodiversity and increasing pesticide use in tropical countries, knowledge on the sensitivity of tropical amphibians to pesticides remains limited. The aim of this study was to evaluate the acute toxicity of the active ingredients of four of the main herbicides used in Brazilian sugarcane production to tadpoles of two tropical frog species: Physalaemus cuvieri and Hypsib ...
... A new, simple colorimetric aptasensor based on the aggregation-induced color change of citrate-stabilized AuNPs was designed for the specific and sensitive determination of ametryn. Citrate-stabilized AuNPs with negative surface charges were synthesized via an easy one-pot reaction. Because of the electrostatic interaction between the three-nitrogen hybrid ring of ametryn and gold nanoparticles, t ...
... The present study was aimed to investigate biodegradation of 2-(ethylamino)-4-(isopropylamino)-6-(methylthio)-s-triazine (ametryn) in a laboratory-scale anaerobic sequential batch reactor (ASBR) and followed by aerobic post-treatment. Co-treatment of ametryn with starch is carried out at ambient environmental conditions. The treatment process lasted up to 150 days of operation at a constant hydrau ...
... Atrazine and ametryn are pre- and post-emergence herbicides widely used in sugarcane fields. Both are characterised by moderate to high mobility in soil and are regarded as a threat to hydrologic systems. Physical and chemical soil properties are highlighted as one of the factors governing the fate of pesticides in hydrologic systems. The aim of our study was to estimate the leaching potential of ...
ametryn; atrazine; maximum contaminant level; metribuzin; pollution; prometryn; propazine; simazine; simetryn; tandem mass spectrometry; toxicology; China
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... The aim of the current study was to track the composition, spatial and temporal distribution charactistics of triazine herbicides in arable soils and corns in typical agricultural regions of Liaoning Province, China. All samples were analyzed using high performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (HPLC-MS/MS). Twelve kinds of triazine herbicides were found including atrazine, simazi ...
... Field studies were conducted on organic soils in Belle Glade, FL, in 2016 to 2017 to evaluate sugarcane tolerance and fall panicum control with topramezone applied alone or in combination with triazine herbicides (atrazine, metribuzin, ametryn). Treatments included topramezone (25 and 50 g ai ha–¹) applied alone or in combination with atrazine (2,240 g ai ha–¹), metribuzin (2,240 g ai ha–¹), and a ...
... Atrazine offers growers a reliable option to control a broad spectrum of weeds in grain sorghum production systems when applied PRE or POST. However, because of the extensive use of atrazine in grain sorghum and corn, it has been found in groundwater in the United States. Given this issue, field experiments were conducted in 2017 and 2018 in Fayetteville and Marianna, Arkansas, to explore the tole ...
... Biopurification systems are useful in the management of pesticide residues and provide an option to dispose wastewaters of agricultural origin derived from pesticide application practices. The analysis of pesticide residues in the biopurification system biomixture is necessary to determine whether the removal of the target compounds occurs with reliable results. In this study, the pesticide extrac ...
... Ametryn is a representative of a class of s-triazine herbicides absorbed by plant roots and leaves and characterized as a photosynthesis inhibitor. It is still in use in some countries in the farming of pineapples, soybean, corn, cotton, sugar cane or bananas; however, due to the adverse effects of s-triazine herbicides on living organisms use of these pesticides in the European Union has been ban ...
adsorption; ametryn; atraton; chemical species; coordination polymers; corn; desmetryn; detection limit; dipropetryn; high performance liquid chromatography; microextraction; prometon; prometryn; solvents; sorbents; tandem mass spectrometry; ultrasonics
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... In this work, a metal-organic framework material MIL-101(Cr) was prepared and used as the sorbent for a laboratory-made semi-automated microextraction in packed syringe (MEPS). Six triazine herbicides, including desmetryn, prometon, ametryn, prometryn, atraton, and dipropetryn, that are commonly found in corn samples, were extracted and determined by the MEPS method and high performance liquid chr ...
... In this work, low cost, locally available laterite-based iron nanoparticles were synthesized using Tectona Grandis extract (Teak extract) with an average size of 75 nm. The synthesized FeNPs were applied as a heterogeneous Fenton catalyst for the oxidation of mixture herbicides, namely ametryn, dicamba and 2,4-D in water. The FeNPs were characterized for various analytical methods (field emission ...
Petra Spirhanzlova; Jean-Baptiste Fini; Barbara Demeneix; Sophie Lardy-Fontan; Sophie Vaslin-Reimann; Béatrice Lalere; Nelson Guma; Andrew Tindall; Sabrina Krief
Eucalyptus; Xenopus laevis; agrochemicals; ametryn; bananas; biodiversity; carbaryl; carbendazim; carbofuran; chemical analysis; chemical constituents of plants; conservation areas; corn; deet; dimethoate; estrogens; fauna; flora; humans; imidacloprid; isoproturon; metolachlor; models; monitoring; national parks; plantations; samplers; small farms; tadpoles; tea; terbutryn; thiamethoxam; water pollution; wildlife; Uganda
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... Pesticides are used worldwide with potential harmful effects on both fauna and flora. The Kibale National Park in Uganda, a site renowned for its biodiversity is surrounded by tea, banana and eucalyptus plantations as well as maize fields and small farms. We previously showed presence of pesticides with potential endocrine disruptive effects in the vicinity. To further investigate the water pollut ...
... Trace and toxic pesticide residues may still remain on crops after harvest. Thus, maximum residual levels (MRLs) of pesticides on crops have been regulated. To determine whether the remaining pesticide residue level is below MRL, time-consuming sample pretreatment is needed prior to analysis of crop samples by suitable analytical tools. By elimination of sample pretreatment steps, a high-throughpu ...
... In the present work, a simple and fast sample pretreatment method based on salt-induced homogenous liquid–liquid microextraction has been proposed for the extraction and preconcentration of some widely used pesticides (diazinon, ametryn, chlorpyrifos, penconazole, oxadiazon, diniconazole, and fenazaquin) from different fruit juice samples prior to gas chromatography-flame ionization detection. Ini ...
ametryn; diuron; ecotoxicology; guidelines; hexazinone; marine ecosystems; photosystem II; rivers; simazine; water quality; waterways; Great Barrier Reef; New Zealand
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... Triazine and urea herbicides are two groups of photosystem II inhibiting herbicides frequently detected in surface, ground and marine waters. Yet, there are few water quality guidelines for herbicides. Ecotoxicity thresholds (ETs) for ametryn, hexazinone and simazine (triazine herbicides) and diuron (a urea herbicide) were calculated using the Australian and New Zealand method for deriving guideli ...
... The s-triazine herbicides, such as prometryn, have been widely used in agriculture and have raised much public concern over their contamination of water and soil. Leucobacter sp. JW-1 cells were immobilized in polyvinyl alcohol‑sodium alginate (PVA-SA) beads and then used to degrade prometryn. Orthogonal array experiments showed that the optimal immobilization conditions of PVA-SA immobilized Leuc ...
European Union; MSMA (herbicide); World Health Organization; acetochlor; ametryn; aquatic organisms; education; farmers; farms; headache; leaching; monitoring; mouth; nose; pesticide residues; pollution load; profenofos; questionnaires; runoff; skin irritation; soil; sugar industry; sugarcane; water pollution; wells; Malawi
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... The sugarcane industry is the third largest user of pesticides in Malawi. Our aim with this study was to document pesticide use and handling practices that influence pesticide exposure among sugarcane farmers in Malawi. A semi-structured questionnaire was administered to 55 purposively selected sugarcane farmers and 7 key informants representing 1474 farmers in Nkhata Bay, Nkhotakota and Chikwawa ...
... This study assesses the ecological risks (ERA) of pesticides to aquatic organisms in the River Madre de Dios (RMD), which receives surface runoff water from banana, pineapple, and rice plantations on the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica. Water samples collected over 2 years at five sites in the RMD revealed a total of 26 pesticides. Their toxicity risk to aquatic organisms was assessed using three re ...
... Weeds pose a major challenge at the initial stages of sugarcane and when uncontrolled cause high yield losses. This study was undertaken to define a better and cost-effective weed management strategy. We compared ametryn + trifloxysulfuron-sodium (hereafter referred to as trifloxysulfuron) ready-mixes with single applications of trifloxysulfuron, atrazine and 2,4-D for efficacy, non-target and res ...
agrochemicals; ametryn; crop yield; environmental impact; fumaric acid; green chemistry; herbicidal properties; maleic acid; organic salts; thermal stability; water solubility; weed control
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... Although herbicides are essential for ensuring high crop yields, the development of sustainable formulations remains a challenge in modern agriculture. Herbicide use is typically affected by the poor water solubility of the compounds they contain, and so they are often applied at very high doses that exceed those needed for weed control (WC). Highly soluble herbicides allow application without the ...
... Costa Rica is a tropical country with one of the highest biodiversity on Earth. It also has an intensive agriculture, and pesticide runoff from banana and pineapple plantations may cause a high toxicity risk to non-target species in rivers downstream the plantations. We performed a first tier risk assessment of the maximum measured concentrations of 32 pesticides detected over 4 years in the River ...
Naiane Maria Corrêa dos Santos; Vitor Antunes Martins da Costa; Fillipe Vieira de Araújo; Brenda Thaís Barbalho Alencar; Victor Hugo Vidal Ribeiro; Fabiano Okumura; Maria Lucia Ferreira Simeone; José Barbosa dos Santos
... The phytoremediation potential of Brazilian trees species Calophyllum brasiliense, Eremanthus crotonoides, Hymenaea courbaril, Inga striata, and Protium heptaphyllum was investigated for contaminated soils containing ametryn and hexazinone. Visual injury, chlorophyll content, plant height, leaf temperature, leaf number, and water-efficient use were evaluated. Residual herbicides at soil substrates ...
... The disposal of agricultural antibiotic-containing wastewater in biopurification systems (BPS) employed in the treatment of pesticides, may negatively affect the removal capacity of these devices. This work aimed to employ a fungal pretreatment of oxytetracycline (OTC)-rich wastewater, before its disposal in a BPS used for the treatment of two pesticides. The fungal treatment at reactor scale (sti ...
... The Caño Negro Ramsar wetland is a conservation area of great natural and societal value, located in the lower part of the Frío River watershed in the north of Costa Rica. Its aquatic ecosystems may be considered vulnerable to pollution due to recent changes in land use toward agriculture. In 2011 and 2012, quarterly sampling was done at ten sites located in the middle and lower sections of the Fr ...
... The aim of this study was to evaluate the selectivity of herbicides, insecticides, and fungus Metarhizium anisopliae (Metsch.) on the immature stages of Trichogramma galloi Zucchi. Egg masses of Diatraea flavipennella Box, 1931, containing 30 eggs each, were immersed in test solutions for 5 s, before and after parasitism. In the post-parasitism tests, eggs were treated when they reached the egg–la ...
... This work describes the development of an analytical methodology based on the modified QuEChERS method and GC/MS detection involving the analysis of 38 pesticides in pineapple from a local market in Fortaleza-Brazil. Matrix-standard calibration and heteroscedasticity have been studied by a weighted least squares linear regression model application. The analytical curves for most of the analytes (e ...
... Weed control in corn traditionally has relied on atrazine as a foundational tool to control problematic weeds. However, the recent discovery of atrazine in aquifers and other water sources increases the likelihood of more strict restrictions on its use. Field-based research trials to find atrazine alternatives were conducted in 2017 and 2018 in Fayetteville, AR, by testing the tolerance of corn to ...
ametryn; chemical species; ethylene glycol; experimental design; high performance liquid chromatography; hydrophilicity; liquid-phase microextraction; models; prometryn; simazine; solvents; standard deviation; tetrabutylammonium compounds; vegetable oil
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... In this study, four triazine herbicides—namely, simazine, ametryn, prometryn and terbuthylazine—were separated and determined using high-performance liquid chromatography coupled with ultraviolet detector (HPLC-UVD). The deep eutectic solvent (DES) formed by tetrabutylammonium chloride ([N4444]Cl, TBA) and ethylene glycol (EG) was selected as the extraction solvent of vortex-assisted reversed-phas ...
... Ametryn (AMT) is one of the most widely used herbicides in tropical sugarcane crops, the main culture of São Paulo State, Brazil. It is known as a diffuse pollutant, being found in surface water and sediment of water bodies adjacent to the crop fields. In the present study, the toxicity of AMT to zebrafish (Danio rerio) embryos was evaluated using developmental and biochemical endpoints. At the bi ...
acetochlor; alachlor; ametryn; analytical methods; atrazine; drinking water; groundwater; herbicide residues; human health; metolachlor; simazine; sugarcane; water pollution; China
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... This work investigated drinking water contamination by 11 commonly used herbicides in sugarcane production areas in Guangxi, China. The work developed an analytical method for determination of these herbicides in environmental waters. This work studied herbicide residues in drinking water in Guangxi, China. The maximum residues and percent of detects were: (0.091 µg/L, 29.2%, atrazine), (0.018 µg/ ...
... In this work, the uncertainty estimation for the determination of ametryn, carbofuran, atrazine, carbaryl, and methyl parathion in papaya and avocado is presented, along with other validation parameters. The analytical method was developed using Quick, Easy, Cheap, Effective, Rugged, and Safe extraction and ultrahigh performance liquid chromatography coupled to a triple quadrupole mass detector. T ...
ametryn; chlorpyrifos; diazinon; diniconazole; droplets; fruit juices; gas chromatography; ice; ionic strength; ionization; liquid-phase microextraction; melting; menthol; oxadiazon; pH; penconazole; solidification; solvents; standard deviation
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... In the present study, a green, rapid, and simple sample preparation procedure, vortex-assisted liquid–liquid microextraction based on solidification of floating organic droplets, has been developed for the analysis of ametryn, chlorpyrifos, diazinon, diniconazole, fenazaquin, oxadiazon, and penconazole with gas chromatography-flame ionization detection. In this method, menthol as a green extractio ...
acetone; ametryn; aqueous solutions; carbon; chlorpyrifos; detection limit; diazinon; diniconazole; fruit juices; gas chromatography; ionization; liquid-phase microextraction; magnetic fields; oxadiazon; penconazole; solid phase extraction; solvents; sorbents; statistical analysis
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... In this study, for the first time, a magnetic dispersive solid phase extraction method using an easy–accessible, cheap, and efficient magnetic sorbent (toner powder) combined with dispersive liquid–liquid microextraction has been developed for the extraction and preconcentration of some widely used pesticides (diazinon, ametryn, chlorpyrifos, penconazole, oxadiazon, diniconazole, and fenazaquin) f ...
Vagner Tebaldi de Queiroz; Mariane Martins Azevedo; Iana Pedro da Silva Quadros; Adilson Vidal Costa; Atanásio Alves do Amaral; Gleissy Mary Amaral Dino Alves dos Santos; Ronie Silva Juvanhol; Lucas Arthur de Almeida Telles; Alexandre Rosa dos Santos
Daphnia magna; active ingredients; algae; ametryn; computer software; crop production; cyproconazole; diuron; environmental assessment; environmental impact; groundwater; human health; leaching; median effective concentration; plantations; pollution; risk; risk assessment; streams; surface water; toxicity; triadimenol; triazoles; triazophos; watersheds; Brazil
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... The extensive use of pesticides in agricultural practices has been associated with human health problems and environmental contamination worldwide. Brazil is the largest consumer of pesticides in the world and Espírito Santo State stands out as the second Brazilian producer of coffee. However, there is no information about environmental impact of coffee producing at Itapemirim River Basin (IRB) re ...
... An Ametryn (an s-triazine herbicide) fed laboratory-scale membrane bioreactor (MBR) was studied for 214 days under sub-tropical conditions (20–22 °C) for evaluating its treatment/operating performance and to consolidate the previous findings and establish the design parameters. Ten short-term critical flux tests were carried out at different stages of the study and the Critical Flux Values (CFV) v ...
Carolina S. Machado; Brisa M. Fregonesi; Renato I. S. Alves; Karina A. A. Tonani; Jordi Sierra; Bruno S. Martinis; Beatriz S. Celere; Montse Mari; Marta Schuhmacher; Martí Nadal; Jose L. Domingo; Susana Segura-Muñoz
European Union; United States Environmental Protection Agency; agricultural products; aluminum; ametryn; arsenic; atrazine; cadmium; chromium; cities; copper; diuron; environmental exposure; fish; fish consumption; hexazinone; human health; humans; irrigation; laws and regulations; lead; manganese; mercury; nickel; pollutants; public health; risk; river water; rivers; simazine; tebuthiuron; tin; vanadium; water pollution; water supply; water treatment; watersheds; wet season; zinc; Brazil
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... Mixture of metals and herbicides in rivers may pose relevant risks for the health of surrounding communities. Humans may be exposed to river pollution through intake of contaminated water and fish, as well as irrigated agricultural products. The aim of this study was to assess the human health risks of environmental exposure to metals and herbicides through water and fish intake in the Pardo River ...
Claudio Martin Jonsson; Sarah Arana; Vera Lucia Ferracini; Sonia Claudia Nascimento Queiroz; Zaira Clemente; José Henrique Vallim; Aline de Holanda Nunes Maia; Mônica Accaui Marcondes de Moura
... Sugarcane is one of the world’s most important commodities. In order to control weeds in the plantations and increase productivity, the mixing of different herbicides during spraying operations is commonplace. This practice is unregulated, and the impact on water quality and nontarget tropical species is poorly understood. In the present work, exposure and recovery assays were used to evaluate ant ...
... Spillage of effluents containing high concentration levels of pesticides into water has been considered as one of the serious environmental problems. In this study Fe3O4/reduced graphene oxide (rGO) nanocomposite has been efficiently utilized for the adsorption of five harmful pesticides namely ametryn, prometryn, simazine, simeton and atrazine in an aqueous medium. Electrostatic interaction betwe ...
... The suitability of passive samplers (Chemcatcher) as an alternative to grab sampling in estimating time-weighted average (TWA) concentrations and total loads of herbicides was assessed. Grab sampling complemented deployments of passive samplers in a tropical waterway in Queensland, Australia, before, during and after a flood event. Good agreement was observed between the two sampling modes in esti ...
... A 2,4-D-resistant tall waterhemp population (FS) from Nebraska was evaluated for resistance to other TIR1 auxin receptor herbicides and to herbicides having alternative mechanisms of action using greenhouse bioassays and genetic markers. Atrazine, imazethapyr, lactofen, mesotrione, glufosinate, and glyphosate were applied in a single-dose bioassay, and tissue was collected from marked plants for g ...
adsorption; ametryn; crop production; detection limit; diuron; hexazinone; high performance liquid chromatography; methanol; multiresidue analysis; pH; polymers; river water; solid phase extraction; sorbents; standard deviation; sugarcane; surface water; tebuthiuron
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... In the present study, new sorbents for solid-phase extraction (SPE) based on poly(methacrylic acid-trimethylolpropane trimethacrylate) (PMA-TRIM) and poly(vinylimidazole-TRIM) (PV-TRIM) for simultaneous extraction of tebuthiuron (TBT), hexazinone (HEX), diuron (DIU) and ametryn (AME) and posterior determination by HPLC-DAD were developed. The method was based on the preconcentration of 50.0 mL of ...
... Ametrym (AMT) is the most widely used herbicide and frequently detected in the aquatic environment. AMT also represent a potential health risk to aquatic organisms and animals, including humans. However, little data are available on their toxicity to zebrafish (Danio rerio). The aim of the present study was to evaluate the toxicological effects of AMT exposure on zebrafish embryos. In the acute to ...
... Triazines and their degradation products are transported to the aquatic environment, and once there, the probability to reach the marine environment is very high. In this paper, solid phase extraction (SPE) and extraction by matrix solid phase dispersion (MSPD) to analyse nine triazines (ametryn, atrazine, cyanazine, prometryn, propazine, simazine, simetryn, terbuthylazine and terbutryn) and eight ...
... Seasonal variation of eight chloro-s-triazine herbicides and seven major atrazine and terbuthylazine degradation products was monitored in the Hartbeespoort Dam catchment using gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC–MS) and liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS). Lake, river and groundwater were sampled from the Hartbeespoort Dam catchment over four seasons and the downstream Jukskei ...
... A rapid, simple, and effective method has been developed for the determination of seven triazine herbicides (terbutryn, prometryn, ametryn, prometon, propazine, atrazine, simazine) by coupling off-line hollow fiber liquid liquid liquid microextraction (HF-LLLME) with on-line sweeping micellar electrokinetic chromatography (sweeping-MEKC). In HF-LLLME, seven target triazines in hydrophobic form wer ...
... The biopurification systems (BPS) used for the treatment of pesticide-containing wastewater must present a versatile degrading ability, in order to remove different active ingredients according to the crop protection programs. This work aimed to assay the simultaneous removal of several pesticides (combinations of herbicides/insecticides/fungicides, or insecticides/fungicides) in a biomixture used ...
... In this paper a method of using the “quick, easy, cheap, effective, rugged, and safe” (QuEChERS) extraction and gas chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry detection (GC–MS) was developed for the analysis of five frequently applied pesticides in papaya and avocado. The selected pesticides, ametryn, atrazine, carbaryl, carbofuran, and methyl parathion, represent the most commonly used classes ( ...
ametryn; chloramphenicol; clams; food safety; freshwater; gas chromatography-mass spectrometry; herbicide residues; liquid chromatography; malachite green; metabolites; oysters; pendimethalin; public health; seafoods; shellfish; tandem mass spectrometry; veterinary drugs; water pollution; Taiwan
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... Seafood safety is a crucial public health concern for consumers. In this study, we applied a validated method to analyze the residue of banned veterinary drugs in shellfish, namely chloramphenicol, malachite green, leucomalachite green, and nitrofuran metabolites; additionally, the QuEChERS method was employed to detect 76 herbicides by LC/MS/MS and GC/MS/MS. In total, 42 shellfish samples, which ...
... Echinochloa colona (L.) Link. is one of the most problematic weeds across the world. It is an annual C4 summer grass, native to tropical and subtropical Asia, emerged as a serious and persistent threat in 35 cropping systems in more than 60 countries. E. colona is reported as an important associated weed species in transplanted and direct-seeded rice. Diverse ecotypes, high seed production, short ...
... Seven 1,3,5- triazine (s-triazine) herbicides (ametryn, prometryn, dimethametryn, simazine, atrazine, propazine, and cyanazine) were tested using an amphibian (Silurana tropicalis) metamorphosis assay focusing on morphometric, gravimetric, and thyroid-histological endpoints. Premetamorphic tadpoles were exposed to each s-triazine at 2 concentrations between 1/1000 and 1/10 of the 96-h acute toxici ...
... Ametryn is a selective herbicide belonging to the triazine family and widely used for killing annual grasses or weeds in China and other parts of the world. However, reports on its environmental risk assessment with regard to soil and crop contamination are limited. In this study, accumulation of ametryn in wheat, maize, ryegrass and alfalfa crops along with ametryn residues in the soil planted wi ...
... This manuscript addresses the determination of triazines (ametryn, atrazine, simazine, and terbutryn) in corn matrices using bar adsorptive microextraction coated with a selective molecularly imprinted polymer phase following microliquid desorption and high‐performance liquid chromatography with diode array detection. The molecularly imprinted polymer was synthesized using atrazine as a template a ...
ametryn; condensation reactions; cross-linking reagents; dispersibility; formaldehyde; high performance liquid chromatography; honey; hydrophilicity; melamine; resins; resorcinol; solid phase extraction; tandem mass spectrometry
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... A facile, novel and efficient approach to extract six triazine herbicides from honey samples based on hydrophilic molecularly imprinted resins (MIRs) was described. The MIRs were prepared in a one-pot polycondensation with resorcinol and melamine as the double functional monomers, formaldehyde as a crosslinking agent, and ametryn as the template. The obtained MIRs have a uniform spherical morpholo ...
... Since most risk assessment for toxicants is based on individual single-species test, the deduction of such results to ecosystem evaluation is afflicted with uncertainties. Herein, we successfully developed a p-benzoquinone mediated whole-cell electrochemical biosensor for multi-pollutants toxicological analysis by co-immobilizing mixed strains of microorganism, including Escherichia coli (gram-neg ...
... A highly selective method for the analysis of triazine herbicides in corn samples based on molecularly imprinted solid phase extraction (MISPE) has been developed. Molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs) were synthesized by precipitation polymerization using atrazine as a template, methacrylic acid as a functional monomer, ethylene glycol dimethacrylate as a crosslinker, and 2,2′-azobis-isobutrynitr ...
... Biopurification systems (BPS) are design to remove pesticides from agricultural wastewater. This work assays for the first time the potential effect of an antibiotic of agricultural use (oxytetracycline, OTC) on the performance of a biomixture (biologically active core of BPS), considering that antibiotic-containing wastewaters are also produced in agricultural labors. The respiration of the biomi ...
activated carbon; adsorption; ametryn; biodegradation; bioreactors; disinfection; long term experiments; pollutants; sludge; sugarcane
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... A laboratory-scale membrane bioreactor (MBR) combined with ultraviolet (UV) disinfection and granular activated carbon (GAC) adsorption was researched for over seven months to evaluate the removal efficiencies and mechanisms of a moderately persistent s-triazine herbicide (Ametryn), which is commonly used in Australian sugarcane farmlands. Long-term experiments showed that MBR alone (15h hydraulic ...
... The homogeneous ionic liquid microextraction combined with magnetical hollow fiber bar collection was developed for extracting triazine herbicides from water samples. These analytes were separated and determined by high performance liquid chromatography. The triazines were quickly extracted into ionic liquid microdroplets dispersed in solution, and then these microdroplets were completely collecte ...
... Field experiment was conducted to evaluate the bio-efficacy of ametryn 73.15% + trifloxysulfuron 1.85% W.G for the management of grasses, sedge and broad-leaf weeds in sugarcane. The experiment consisted of nine treatments laid out in randomized block design with three replications. Cyperus rotundus, Ipomoea spp, Brachiaria reptans, Echinochloa cotona, Digitaria sanguinalis and Dactyloctenium aegy ...
... s-Triazine herbicides have been widely used in recent decades and caused serious concern over contamination of groundwater, surface water and soil. A novel bacterial strain JW-1 was isolated from activated sludge and identified as Leucobacter sp. based on comparative morphology, physiological characteristics and comparison of the 16S rDNA gene sequence. JW-1 was capable of using methylthio-s-triaz ...
ametryn; atrazine; cyanazine; detection limit; horticulture; liquid chromatography; prometryn; propazine; seawater; simazine; simetryn; solid phase extraction; tandem mass spectrometry; terbuthylazine; terbutryn; Portugal
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... A fast, simple, selective and sensitive method has been developed for the determination of nine triazine herbicides (ametryn, atrazine, cyanazine, prometryn, propazine, simazine, simetryn, terbuthylazine and terbutryn) and eight degradation products (desethyl atrazine, desethyl-desisopropyl atrazine, desethyl 2-hydroxyatrazine, desethyl terbuthylazine, desisopropyl atrazine, desisopropyl 2-hydroxy ...
Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy; ametryn; atrazine; chemical structure; detection limit; energy-dispersive X-ray analysis; gas chromatography-mass spectrometry; nanofibers; polyamides; polymethylmethacrylate; porosity; regression analysis; scanning electron microscopy; solvents; terbutryn; titanium; titanium dioxide
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... In this study, a low–cost microfluidic device from polymethyl methacrylate was fabricated by laser engraving technique. The device is consisted of a central chip unit with an aligned microchannel Both sides of the engraved microchannel were sandwiched by two synthesized sheets from polyamide/titania (PA/TiO2) hollow nanofibers as extractive phases. The inlet and outlet of the device were connected ...
... Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS)/MIL-100(Fe) coated stir bar was prepared by sol gel technique, and good preparation reproducibility was achieved with relative standard deviations (RSDs) ranging from 2.6% to 7.5% (n=7) and 3.6% to 10.8% (n=7) for bar-to-bar and batch-to-batch, respectively. Compared with commercial PDMS coated stir bar (Gerstel) and PEG coated stir bar (Gerstel), the prepared PDMS/MIL- ...
... An automatic batchwise bioaccessibility test was proposed for on-line monitoring of readily mobile pools of ametryn and atrazine residues in agricultural soils with different physicochemical properties. A 0.01molL−1 CaCl2 solution mimicking rainwater percolation through the soil profiles was used for the herbicide extractions. The extract aliquots were successively sampled at regular time interval ...
... Zeolitic imidazolate frameworks have positive surface charges and high adsorption capabilities. In this work, zeolitic imidazolate frameworks‐8 and negatively charged magnetic nanoparticles were self‐assembled by electrostatic attraction under sonication. The extraction performance of the synthesized hybrid material was evaluated by using it as a magnetic adsorbent for the enrichment of triazine h ...
... The Fe nanoparticles were synthesized using eucalyptus leaf extracts. The low cost and locally available laterite was used as a source of iron rather than using iron salts (Ferrous sulfate, Ferric chloride etc.). The raw laterite particles (RLPs) and synthesized green iron nanoparticles (LGFeNPs) were characterized using FESEM-EDX, XRD, FTIR and BET techniques. The obtained results confirm that 20 ...
... To assess the potential impacts of agricultural pesticides on tropical freshwater ecosystems, the present study developed temperature‐specific, freshwater species protection concentrations (i.e., ecotoxicity threshold values) for 8 pesticides commonly detected in Australia's tropical freshwaters. Because relevant toxicity data for native tropical freshwater species to assess the ecological risks w ...
... s-Triazine herbicides (atrazine, ametryn) are groundwater contaminants which may undergo microbial hydrolysis. Previously, inverse nitrogen isotope effects in atrazine degradation by Arthrobacter aurescens TC1 (i) delivered highly characteristic (¹³C/¹²C, ¹⁵N/¹⁴N) fractionation trends for pathway identification and (ii) suggested that the s-triazine ring nitrogen was protonated in the enzyme s-tri ...
... This paper describes the development of a method for the determination of six pesticides (tebuthiuron, carbofuran, atrazine, metribuzine, ametryn, and bifenthrin) in sugarcane juice using microextraction by packed sorbent as the extraction technique. The extraction steps were optimized by factorial design, being the variables pH, ionic strength, desorption solvent and solvent volume optimized for ...
ametryn; chlorpyrifos; cocoa beans; gas chromatography; liquid chromatography; metalaxyl; monitoring; pesticide residues; rapid methods; solvents; statistical analysis; tandem mass spectrometry; uncertainty
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... An efficient and rapid method for the analysis of pesticide residues in cocoa beans using gas and liquid chromatography–tandem mass spectrometry was developed, validated and applied to imported and domestic cocoa beans samples collected over 2years from smallholders and Malaysian ports. The method was based on solvent extraction method and covers 26 pesticides (insecticides, fungicides, and herbic ...