Evaluation of the cytotoxic effects of glyphosate herbicides in human liver,lung, and nerve

Glyphosate-based herbicides are broad-spectrum pesticides widely used in the world, which is considered a highly safe pesticide due to their target specificity, but recently, there has been an ongoing controversy regarding their carcinogenicity and possible side effects of glyphosate on human health. Commercial glyphosate-based herbicides (GBHs) consist of declared active ingredient (glyphosate salts) and a number of formulants such as ethoxylated formulants (4130®, 3780^®, and A-178^®). The aim of our study is to investigate whether the toxicity of GBHs is related to formulants. The effects of GBHs on human health were studied at the cellular level based on their toxicity to liver, lungs and nerve tissue. The inhibitory toxicity to cell viability by GBHs was examined with cell-based systems using three human cell lines: HepG2, A549, and SH-SY5Y. Data obtained showed that all tested ethoxylated formulants and their mixtures with declared active ingredient glyphosate isopropylamine salt (GP) have significant inhibitory effect on cell proliferation, while the declared active ingredient has no significant toxicity. Our study demonstrates that the toxic effect of GBH is primarily due to the use of formulants. This result suggests that GP is relatively safe and a new approach for the assessment of toxicity should be made.     

Influence of surfactant concentration on foliar retention of pesticides used in forestry

Abstract

Aqueous tank mixes of permethrin, fenitrothion, Bacillus thuringiensis (B.t.), diflubenzuron (DFB), and glyphosate containing different amounts of Triton® X‐114, a nonionic surfactant, were prepared. Glyphosate formed clear solutions, permethrin and fenitrothion formed emulsions, DFB and B.t provided suspensions. Emulsion stability of permethrin and fenitrothion increased with increasing surfactant level, while the emulsion drop size decreased.

Foliage of white oak, trembling aspen, white spruce and balsam fir were dipped in tank mixes of pesticides (except B.t.) labelled with ¹⁴carbon. The amount of pesticide retained on foliage was determined by liquid scintillation counting. Foliage was also dipped in non‐radioactive B.t. tank mixes, and the protein retained was determined colorimetrically. With all tank mixes, a direct relationship was observed between the mass of liquids retained on foliage and liquid viscosity. In contrast, the amount of pesticide retained was unaffected by viscosity, but was influenced by emulsion drop size. Initially, the amount of pesticide retained on foliage increased with increasing surfactant concentration. Beyond an optimum surfactant level, the emulsion drop sizes were too small and the emulsions became too stable to allow maximum retention of pesticides on foliage. With the glyphosate solutions, however, no optimum surfactant level was indicated because foliar concentrations continued to increase with increasing surfactant levels.     

铜与草甘膦复合污染对小麦种子发芽与根伸长的抑制作用

污染物的交互作用及其生态毒理效应已成为环境科学研究的重要方向.论文以小麦种子为供试作物,研究了重金属铜(Cu2+)与除草剂草甘膦复合污染对其发芽率以及发芽后的根长、芽长的影响,以表征Cu与草甘膦复合污染的生态毒性.研究结果表明,在实验浓度下,Cu2+单一污染对小麦发芽率没有明显的影响,对根伸长和芽长的抑制显著;而草甘膦单一污染对小麦发芽、根伸长和芽长均有明显的抑制效应.当Cu2+与草甘膦复合污染时,Cu2+的存在在一定程度上减弱了草甘膦对小麦发芽及芽长的抑制作用;而在根伸长实验中,在低草甘膦浓度条件下,Cu2+的存在在一定程度上增加了草甘膦对根伸长的抑制作用;在较高草甘膦浓度条件下,Cu2+的存在则降低了草甘膦对根伸长的抑制作用.Cu2+的存在减轻草甘膦对小麦毒性的可能原因是:草甘膦与Cu2+络合形成了毒性较小的稳定络合物,使草甘膦毒性降低或失去活性.     

草甘膦生产工艺水资源代谢分析与优化建议

以某农药集团草甘膦生产工艺为例,运用工业代谢分析方法对其水资源代谢过程进行量化分析,建立了水代谢平衡账户并绘制了水代谢图,在此基础上,识别和筛选出草甘膦生产过程中的主要用水单元及废水排放单元,并据此提出优化建议. 结果表明,草甘膦生产过程中的主要用水类别为蒸汽,其蒸汽消耗单元多且用汽量大,而换热网络单一,冷凝水浪费较严重,系统中水资源重复利用水平较差.针对该问题,从系统优化和节水管理等方面提出了工艺废水的重复利用及主要用汽单元之间的换热网络优化等建议,以期提高生产过程中的水资源利用效率.      

Effects of phosphate on the adsorption of glyphosate on three different types of Chinese soils

Glyphosate （GPS） is a non-selective, post-mergence herbicide that is widely used throughout the world. Due to the similar molecular structures of glyphosate and phosphate, adsorption of glyphosate on soil is easily affected by coexisting phosphate, especially when phosphate is applied at a significant rate in farmland. This paper studied the effects of phosphate on the adsorption of glyphosate on three different types of Chinese soils including two variable charge soils and one permanent charge soil. The results indicated that Freundlich equations used to simulate glyphosate adsorption isotherms gave high correlation coefficients（0.990-0.998） with K values of 2751, 2451 and 166 for the zhuanhong soil（ZH soil, Laterite）, red soil（ RS, Udic Ferrisol） and Wushan paddy soil（WS soil, Anthrosol）, respectively. The more the soil iron and aluminum oxides and clay contained, the more glyphosate adsorbed. The presence of phosphate significantly decreased the adsorption of glyphosate to the soils by competing with glyphosate for adsorption sites of soils. Meanwhile, the effects of phosphate on adsorption of glyphosate on the two variable charge soils were more significant than that on the permanent charge soil. When phosphate and glyphosate were added in the soils in different orders, the adsorption quantities of glyphosate on the soils were different, which followed GPS-soil 〉 GPS-P-soil = GPS-Soil-P 〉 P-soil-GPS, meaning a complex interaction occurred among glyphosate, phosphate and the soils.     

Fenton氧化-镁盐沉淀法处理草甘膦废水

采用Fenton氧化-镁盐沉淀法处理草甘膦废水，同时得到CaCl2产品。研究了H2O2和Fe^2＋的加入量对Fenton氧化阶段处理效果的影响及Mg^2＋的加入量、沉淀终点pH和沉降时间等因素对镁盐沉淀阶段处理效果的影响。确定了Fenton氧化-镁盐沉淀法的最佳操作条件：常温常压下，用CaCO3调节废水pH约为4．0，H2O2加入量（质量分数，下同）为3％，Fe^2＋加入量为6％，反应时间为2h；Mg^2＋加入量为5％，加入石灰乳调节体系pH为11．0，静置沉降120min后分离，用HCl调节上层清液pH为7．0，浓缩，260℃下烘干得CaCl2产品。在此条件下，草甘瞵废水的COD去除率达75．8％，CaCl2产率为48．5％。     

菌株BR13降解有机磷农药的特性研究

从农药厂污水处理池的活性污泥中分离得到一株降解有机磷农药的假单胞菌株BR13,该菌对浓度为0.4％的有机磷农药草甘膦的最高降解率为64％,研究了该菌的降解特性.结果表明农药浓度是0.4％时该菌能旺盛生长,其遗传稳定性较好,在第3天的降解率最佳且较稳定;该菌最有利于降解有机磷的条件如下:接种量4％、浓度为2％的蔗糖作碳源...     

草甘膦对沉积物-水界面藻类群落结构影响研究

为了探究环境中残留除草剂草甘膦对沉积物-水界面藻类群落结构演替的影响,分别以九龙江两个断面拱桥溪和石龟头的沉积物-水界面藻类群落结构为研究对象,并添加0.05 mg·L^-1草甘膦作为磷源进行实验模拟.结果表明：拱桥溪沉积物-水界面藻类生物量占比为蓝藻：绿藻∶硅藻∶甲藻=0.3%∶7.8%∶91.5%∶0.3%,蓝藻生物量占比低于1%,以硅藻门直链藻属为优势种属;石龟头沉积物-水界面藻类生物量起点占比为蓝藻∶绿藻∶硅藻∶甲藻=20.8%∶58.5%∶19.5%∶1.2%,蓝藻生物量占比大于20%,绿藻门栅藻属、蓝藻门微囊藻属和硅藻门直链藻属为优势种属.草甘膦调控15 d后,拱桥溪沉积物-水界面蓝藻生物量占比从0.3%增长到22.6%,生物量是无机磷组的7.6倍,但硅藻仍为优势门类,这与蓝藻生物量占比低于1%的拱桥溪表层水体藻类群落演替结果类似;而石龟头沉积物-水界面蓝藻生物量占比从20.8%增长到57.8%,生物量是 无机磷组的近5倍,蓝藻演替为优势门类,这与蓝藻生物量占比大于15%的石龟头表层水体藻类群落演替结果相似.调控实验表明,在草甘膦胁迫下蓝藻门的增殖能力均表现为强于甲藻门和绿藻门.蓝藻门微囊藻属是直接利用草甘膦,或受草甘膦刺激生长并在群落结构中取得竞争优势还有待进一步研究.     

离子色谱-串联质谱法测定4类水质中7种极性有机磷

应用离子色谱-串联质谱法(IC-MS/MS)同时测定了地下水、地表水、生活污水和工业废水等4类水质中的草甘膦、草铵膦、氨甲基膦酸、杀木膦、乙烯利、双甘膦和增甘膦.这7种有机磷极性和水溶性强,用常规气相或液相的方法需要经衍生化后才能测定,且要严格控制前处理条件.该法水样用微孔滤膜和离子净化柱过滤后直接进样,经Ion Pa...     

除草剂草甘膦在土壤中的吸附行为

研究了除草剂草甘膦在3种土壤中的吸附行为, 观察了pH和离子强度等因素对吸附的影响. 结果表明:草甘膦在3种土壤中的吸附过程均符合一级动力学规律, 吸附等温线均为直线,吸附常数K_d 2.2207～3.5280mL/g; 随着离子强度的降低, 草甘膦在3种土壤中的吸附量明显增大; 随着pH(9～3)逐渐减小, 草甘膦在呼和浩特特市土壤和东胜土壤中的吸附量增大, 在杭锦2号土中的吸附量先增大, 在pH=7时达到最大值, pH=5时开始下降, 下降到4时的吸附量与pH=9时的相等.