Qiu-sheng Zhong, Shu-qing Wan, C. Shen
Jun 12, 2018
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Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology
Abstract
Quinclorac is a selective herbicide commonly used in China to control monocotyledonous weeds in paddy fields. A field experiment was conducted to quantify the environmental behavior of quinclorac in acidic paddy soil under rice (Oryza sativa L.) field conditions, and to evaluate the risk of its residues to the subsequent crop of tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.). Rice was sprayed once with quinclorac 50% WP at 562.5, 375.0, or 187.5 g a.i. ha−1 at 7 days after transplanting the seedlings. Decay of quinclorac in paddy field soil followed first-order kinetics, with a half-life of 28.29–30.27 days. At harvest time, 0.090, 0.074 and 0.034 mg kg−1 of quinclorac were found in soils following the above-described treatments, respectively. Leaves of the subsequent crop, tobacco, sown the year after the quinclorac treatments, exhibited different dose-dependent degrees of visible phytotoxicity symptoms.