Flupyrsulfuron soil dissipation and mobility in winter wheat crops.

Rouchaud, Jean;Neus, O;Cools, K;Bulcke, R.
(1999) Journal of agricultural and food chemistry — Vol. 47, n° 9, p. 3872-3878 (1999)

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  • Rouchaud, JeanUCLouvain
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  • Neus, O
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  • Cools, K
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  • Bulcke, R.
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Abstract
Residues of the sulfonylurea herbicide flupyrsulfuron were extracted from cropping soils with 0.1 M NaHCO(3). The soil extracts were cleaned up by partitioning and repeated thin-layer chromatography. Flupyrsulfuron was transformed by diazomethane into N-(4, 6-dimethoxypyrimidine-2-yl)-N-(3-methoxycarbonyl-6-trifluoromet hylpyr idine-2-yl)methylamine (2), which was analyzed by gas-liquid chromatography with electron capture detection, and confirmation for several samples was made by gas chromatography combined with mass spectrometry. The sensitivity limit was 0.5 microg of flupyrsulfuron kg(-)(1) of dry soil. Bioassays using sugar beet as test plant qualitatively confirmed the results of the chemical analyses. Flupyrsulfuron [10 g of active ingredient ha(-)(1)] was applied in autumn on plots in two winter wheat crops on a sandy loam soil, the first crop being made in 1996-1997 and the second one in 1997-1998. In the 0-8 cm surface soil layer of both crops, the flupyrsulfuron soil half-lives were 123 and 92 days, respectively. Flupyrsulfuron was also applied post-emergence in March to other plots in the same crops; the half-lives in the 0-8 cm surface soil layer were similar in both seasons, that is, approximately 58 days. During all crop trials, flupyrsulfuron remained in the 0-8 cm surface soil layer and was not detected in the 8-10, 10-15, and 15-20 cm surface soil layers. The surface-2 cm soil layer contained the greatest flupyrsulfuron soil concentration, but the residues progressively moved down into the 2-4 and 4-6 cm soil layers. At the winter wheat harvest date for each trial, flupyrsulfuron was not detected in any of the soil layers (<0.5 microg kg(-)(1)).
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Rouchaud, J., Neus, O., Cools, K., & Bulcke, R. (1999). Flupyrsulfuron soil dissipation and mobility in winter wheat crops. Journal of agricultural and food chemistry, 47(9), 3872-3878. https://doi.org/10.1021/jf981017s (Original work published 1999)