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Detoxification of Atrazine in Three Gramineae Subfamilies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2017

K.I.N. Jensen ,
G.R. Stephenson  and
L.A. Hunt
K.I.N. Jensen
Affiliation:
Dep. Environ. Biol., Univ. of Guelph, Guelph, Ont., Canada, N1G 2W1
G.R. Stephenson
Affiliation:
Dep. Environ. Biol., Univ. of Guelph, Guelph, Ont., Canada, N1G 2W1
L.A. Hunt
Affiliation:
Dep. Crop Sci., Univ. of Guelph, Guelph, Ont., Canada, N1G 2W1
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Abstract

Inhibition and subsequent recovery of net CO2 exchange (NCE) by single leaves of 53 grass species of the subfamilies Festucoideae, Panicoideae, and Eragrostoideae was monitored following limited root uptake of atrazine [2-chloro-4-(ethylamino)-6-(isopropylamino)-s-triazine]. Rates of NCE recovery were correlated with rates of 14C-atrazine metabolism in leaf sections of festucoid and panicoid grasses but not eragrostoid grasses. Rates of NCE recovery among the nine festucoid and 12 eragrostoid species tested did not exceed 0.2 and 1.1 mg CO2 per dm2 per hr/hr, respectively, whereas for the 31 panicoid species, it ranged from 0.2 to 2.4 mg CO2 per dm2 per hr/hr. Selected species exhibiting NCE recovery rates exceeding 1.2 mg CO2 per dm2 per hr/hr were tolerant to 1.0 kg/ha preemergence and 1.25 kg/ha postemergence atrazine applications. These panicoid species included a number of common weed species belonging to the genera Digitaria, Panicum, and Setaria, as well as species belonging to Bracharia, Pennisetum, Sorghum, and Zea. Unchanged 14C-atrazine accounted for 11.3 to 92.7% of the total 14C-radioactivity extracted from 14C-atrazine infiltrated leaf sections following an 8-hr incubation period. N-dealkylation, hydroxylation, and peptide conjugation occurred in all species, although rates of these metabolic pathways varied widely among species. Recovery of NCE was correlated with formation on the glutathione-atrazine conjugate, and conjugation was the major detoxification pathway in species exhibiting tolerance to atrazine.

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Research Article
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Weed Science , Volume 25 , Issue 3 , May 1977 , pp. 212 - 220
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Copyright © 1977 by the Weed Science Society of America 

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