Plant availability of bound anilazine residues in a degraded loess soil |
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Authors: | R Kloskowski F Führ W Mittelstaedt |
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Institution: | Institute of Radioagronomy, Kernforschungsanlage Jülich GmbH , Postfach 1913, Jülich, D 5170, F.R.G. |
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Abstract: | Abstract The relative biological availability of benzene ring‐U‐14C] and Ctriazine‐U‐14C] anilazine for maize plants was studied in a degraded loess soil in a standardized microecosystem. The total uptake of radiocarbon in the course of the 4‐week experiment was 3.1 and 4 % respectively of the radioactivity applied if anilazine was uniformly mixed into the soil immediately before beginning the experiment. However, if anilazine was subjected to a degradation at 65 % of the maximum water holding capacity of the soil and temperatures varying daily between 16 and 27°C for 100 days before the plant experiment then the uptake was reduced to 0.4 or 0.7 % respectively. The uptake from soil with non‐extractable (bound) anilazine residues was similarly low. The mineralization rate of aged and bound anilazine residues was below 0.1 % of the radioactivity applied. Up to 2/3 of the radioactivity present in the soil after the plant experiment remained in the humic fraction. |
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Keywords: | fungicides anilazine bound residues bioavailability |
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