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V. Ezhilarasi, P. Janaki, P. Murali Arthanari and C. Chinnusamy. 2018. Dissipation and fate of ready mix combination of pyrazosulfuron-ethyl and pretilachlor in rice field . Indian Journal of Weed Science : 50( 3) 250- 256.







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Volume Issue Publication year Page No Type of article
50 3 2018 250-256 Research article
Dissipation and fate of ready mix combination of pyrazosulfuron-ethyl and pretilachlor in rice field

V. Ezhilarasi, P. Janaki, P. Murali Arthanari and C. Chinnusamy

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5958/0974-8164.2018.00054.0

Email: janakibalamurugan@rediffmail.com
Address: Department of Agronomy, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu 641003; Department of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry, Anbil Dharamalingam Agricultural College and Research Institute, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Trichy 620009

Keywords:

HPLC

GC

Persistence

Pretilachlor

Pyrazosulfuron-ethyl

Rice



Abstract:

Application of ready-mix herbicides containing two active ingredients in rice to manage broad group of weeds is in practice currently. Among different ready mix formulations, one comprising pyrazosulfuron-ethyl and pretilachlor have been recently registered in India. Though, the persistence of each herbicide in soil under rice as single formulation was reported, the information on persistence of herbicides from ready-mix formulations is not reported under semi-arid tropical conditions of India. Hence, an experiment was conducted to study the dissipation and fate of these ready-mix formulation herbicides in rice soil, water and in rice grain. Pyrazosulfuron-ethyl and pretilachlor residues were determined using high performance liquid chromatograph (HPLC) and gas chromatograph (GC), respectively. The average recoveries of pyrazosulfuron-ethyl and pretilachlor from matrix ranged from 80.3-103.3% with less than 10% standard deviation and sensitivity up to 0.001 µg/g. Both herbicides showed rapid dissipation in rice field water than soil and the degradation followed first order reaction kinetics. While pyrazosulfuron-ethyl dissipated with a half-life of 2.17-5.45 and 0.77-0.79 days respectively in rice field soil and water, pretilachlor dissipated with a half-life of 5.18–6.68 days in soil and 2.59–3.00 days in field water. Pyrazosulfuron-ethyl has shorter half-life than pretilachlor and both the active ingredients dissipated rapidly in rice field soil than water. At harvest, the residues of both the herbicides in rice grain and straw were below the MRLs set by FSSAI





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