Herbicide safeners: Tools for improving the efficacy and selectivity of herbicides

Abstract

Safeners (also known as antidotes) are chemical or biological agents that reduce the toxicity of herbicides to crop plants by a physiological or molecular mechanism. Commercialized safeners are mainly chemical compounds that enhance the tolerance of selected grass crops such as maize (Zea mays L.), grain sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench], rice (Oryza sativa L.), and wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) to chloroacetanilide, thiocarbamate, sulfonylurea, imidazolinone, and aryloxyphenoxypropionate herbicides. In practice, safeners are applied either to the crop prior to planting (seed safeners) or to the soil together with the herbicide, formulated as a prepackaged mixture. Safeners act as "bioregulators”; controlling the amount of a given herbicide that reaches its target site in an active form. A safener‐induced enhancement of the metabolic detoxification of herbicides in protected plants is the most apparent mechanism for the action of all commercialized safeners. Herbicide‐detoxifying enzymes such as glutathione transferases (GST), cytochrome P‐450 monooxygenases (CytP450), esterases, and UDP‐glucosyltransferases are induced by herbicide safeners. At the molecular level, safeners appear to act by activating or amplifying genes coding for these enzymes (e.g., GST).     

几种胁迫因素对绞股蓝愈伤组织中皂甙积累的影响

将ＭＳ＋ρ（２,４Ｄ）０．５ｍｇ·Ｌ－１＋ρ（ＢＡ）１０ｍｇ·Ｌ－１培养基的Ｍｎ２＋浓度提高２０倍时可使绞胶蓝愈伤组织培养物的皂甙产率增加９１％,而提高Ｃｕ２＋浓度对皂甙积累的影响不显著;培养基中加入６８０ｍｍｏｌ·Ｌ－１的甘露醇可使皂甙产率提高８３％,但加入ＮａＣｌ则会降低皂甙产量;适当浓度的米曲霉和根霉提取物可使皂甙产率分别提高９７％和４２％．由ＴＬＣ图谱可见,绞股蓝愈伤组织中的皂甙组成与原植物相似,但出现一个新组分;原个别组分在不同的胁迫条件下有差别地消失．     

超声对磷酸铵镁结晶特性的影响

利用自制实验装置考察了功率超声对磷酸铵镁(MAP)溶液的结晶介稳区、诱导期、结晶反应速率和晶型等结晶反应特性的影响作用规律。结果表明,对于浓度为4 mmol/L的MAP溶液,分别施加150、250和350 W的功率超声,其达到超饱和状态的临界pH值分别比自然反应条件的临界pH值降低0.14、0.21和0.38,结晶介稳区也随超声功率的增加逐渐变窄;施加150~200 W的功率超声,可将MAP的结晶诱导期从340 s缩短至50~100 s以下,但是继续提高超声功率,结晶诱导期变化不大;超声作用下的MAP结晶反应速率明显加快,随着超声功率的增加,结晶反应速率曲线的缓慢平台期几近消失;扫描电镜观测结果表明,超声作用下MAP结晶产物更加均匀,晶体形貌完整,晶体增长较快。     

Acute toxicity variation of hydroxyl benzophenone UV filters during photoinduction–chlorination disinfection processes

Benzophenones(BPs), a group of widely used UV filters, exert multiple, significant toxicity effects. The 11 BPs were selected as target compounds, and the photobacterium acute toxicity test and an index for acute toxicity formation potential(ATFP) were used to evaluate the toxicity variation of BPs before and after a photoinduction–chlorination disinfection process.Orthogonal experiments were performed at different pH values and chlorine dosages. The characteristics of ATFP values for 11 BPs after a photoinduction–chlorination process can be summarized as follows:(1) The ATFPs decreased as the hydroxyl group number increased in BPs molecules.(2) For those BPs with the same hydroxyl group number, the ATFPs were higher when the hydroxyl groups were located at the 3-or 4-position than those at the 2-position; the BPs with hydroxyl groups distributed on two benzene rings had higher ATFPs than those on one ring.(3) Introducing a methoxyl group and sulfonic acid group into BP molecules increased the ATFP values.(4) The ATFPs were p H-dependent, the values of which were lowest at the neutral condition and highest at the acid condition.(5) The ATFPs increased and then decreased as the chlorine dosage increased. The results can be used as a reference to scientifically evaluate the environmental fate and potential risk of BPs in photoinduction–chlorination disinfection processes.     

半固态触变成形坯料感应加热的数值模拟

半固态触变成形技术以其降低宏观偏析、减少多孔性、成形力小和近终成形等优点受到广泛关注。在触变成形之前 ,使坯料具有均匀的固 液相分布和球状晶粒是很重要的 ,这就要求加热快而迅速。为满足这一要求 ,目前普遍采用电磁感应加热。文中对感应加热进行了有限元理论分析 ,采用商用有限元软件ANASYS对半固态触变成形坯料感应加热进行了数值模拟 ,模拟了频率、加热时间、线圈电流强度系数、坯料尺寸半径、线圈尺寸大小等参数对坯料温度的影响。     

Streptomyces venezuelae GY1产聚乙烯醇降解酶的培养条件

放线菌StreptomycesvenezuelaeGY1产生的聚乙烯醇(PVA)降解酶是一种诱导酶.以4种不同类型的PVA为唯一碳源时,该菌株单位质量细胞产酶能力比以糖类物质为唯一碳源时提高10倍以上.聚合度和醇解度最高的PVA1799是该菌株产生PVA降解酶的适宜底物,其浓度为1gL-1时,PVA降解酶的产量为120u/g(细胞).培养基中PVA1799浓度由1gL-1上升到5gL-1时,该菌株单位质量细胞产酶能力下降73%,表明PVA1799浓度过高会抑制产酶.GY1菌株产酶的最适温度和pH分别为30℃和7.0.在GY1菌株生长过程中控制以下条件有利于产生PVA降解酶:(1)保持培养体系中较高的溶氧水平;(2)在氮源中补充NO-3;(3)在一定浓度范围内添加MgSO4·7H2O、CaCl2、MnSO4、BaCl2、ZnSO4、FeSO4·7H2O和CuSO4等金属盐.Pseudomonassp.产生的PVA降解酶能够作用伯醇或仲醇类化合物,以这些伯醇或仲醇类化合物代替培养基中的PVA,不能诱导GY1菌株产生PVA降解酶;而在培养基中有PVA存在时,再添加0.5gL-1的3戊醇和环己醇能够明显促进PVA降解酶的产生(单位质量细胞产酶能力分别提高了21%和32%).图8表1参10     

组培川贝母鳞茎形成和发育过程中的同功酶分析

在组培川贝母（Fritillaria cirrhosa D.Don）鳞茎形成和发育过程中，获得愈伤组织、胚性愈伤组织、胚状体、小鳞茎和大鳞茎，分别作过氧化物酶、过氧化氢酶、淀粉酶电沪分析和活性分析。结果表明，3种酶都参与了川贝母鳞茎形成和发育，且酶的表达量和活性随不同的时间发生变化。过氧化物酶的B区酶带变化明显，小鳞茎阶段活性较氧化氢酶在胚状体和大鳞茎阶段几乎不表达，但在小鳞茎阶段表达量增加十分明显，活性也较高；淀粉酶的3条谱带在胚状体阶段表达明显，活性也最高，但在大鳞茎阶段则几乎没有表达。图7参7     

杂草对不同水稻品种化感作用的诱导效应

以高脚子粳稻、DV86、HG1和扬稻6号4个水稻品种和稗草、异型莎草、鸭舌草为材料，研究了不同水稻品种单栽或与杂草共栽时，水稻叶片水浸提液对稻田主要杂草稗草的化感作用。结果表明：在正常单栽条件下，高脚子粳稻抗稗草的化感潜力显著大于：HG1和DV86，三者的化感潜力均显著大于非化感品种扬稻6号。不同水稻品种与杂草共栽时，其化感作用均由不同程度的变化，HG1在与稗草共栽时，对稗草幼苗的生长抑制作用显著大于高脚子粳稻；DV86在与鸭舌草共栽时，对稗草幼苗的生长抑制最强。研究表明不同杂草对不同水稻品种的杂草化感作用的诱导效应存在显著差异。     

Milkweeds,monarch butterflies and the ecological significance of cardenolides

Summary The contribution of Miriam Rothschild to the monarch cardenolide story is reviewed in the light of the 1914 challenge by the evolutionary biologist, E.B. Poulton for North American chemists to explain the chemical basis of unpalatability in monarch butterflies and their milkweed host plants. This challenge had lain unaccepted for nearly 50 years until Miriam Rothschild took up the gauntlet and showed with the help of many able colleagues that monarchs are aposematically coloured because they sequester toxic cardenolides from milkweed host plants for use as a defence against predators. By virtue of Dr Rothschild's inspiration and industry, and subsequently that of Lincoln Brower and his colleagues, this tritrophic interaction has become a familiar paradigm for the evolution of chemical defences and warning colouration. We now know that the cardenolide contents of different milkweeds vary quantitatively, qualitatively and spatially, both within and among species and we are starting to appreciate the implications of such variation. However, as Dr Rothschild has pointed out in her publications, cardenolides have sometimes blinded us to reality and it is curious how little evidence there is for a defensive function to cardenolides in plants — especially against adapted specialists such as the monarch. Thus the review will conclude with a discussion of the significance of temporal variation and induction of cardenolide production in plants, the lethal plant defence paradox and an emphasis on the dynamics of the cardenolide-mediated interaction between milkweeds and monarch larvae.     

氯化镉对不同鼠肝肿瘤细胞的毒性及对金属硫蛋白的诱导研究

本文比较了氯化镉对两种去分化和五种分化的鼠肝肿瘤细胞株的细胞毒性以及对金属硫蛋白的诱导能力。结果表明,经2μM氯化镉处理18h后,90—95％的细胞浆中镉同金属硫蛋白结合,而只有5—10％的镉同高分子量部分相连。在IIE细胞中镉与金属硫蛋白的结合取决于氯化镉的浓度与处理时间。当氯化镉浓度高达20μM时对去分化细胞的存活率未见有明显影响,但当浓度为3—10μM时则对分化细胞的存活率有显著影响。这种细胞毒性似与高分子量部分结合的镉的量有关,且氯化镉对这两种细胞的金属硫蛋白有不同的诱导能力。