Herbicides: Brief history, agricultural use, and potential alternatives for weed control

Mesnage, Robin; Székacs, András; Zaller, Johann G.

doi:10.1016/b978-0-12-823674-1.00002-x

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“…Pesticides comprise herbicides, fungicides, insecticides, rodenticides, molluscicides, nematicides, and plant growth regulators. Among pesticides, herbicides have long been employed to control unwanted weeds that inhibit plant development [ 2 , 3 ]; insecticides control/destroy a variety of insect pests [ 4 ]; and fungicides are used to prevent fungal pathogens from damaging agricultural crops [ 5 , 6 ]. There are currently several environmental media, including food, water, and soil, that contain pesticide residues [ 7 ].…”

Section: Pesticide Toxicity To Agricultural Crops: a Burning Problemmentioning

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Metabolomics-Based Mechanistic Insights into Revealing the Adverse Effects of Pesticides on Plants: An Interactive Review

2023

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In plant biology, metabolomics is often used to quantitatively assess small molecules, metabolites, and their intermediates in plants. Metabolomics has frequently been applied to detect metabolic alterations in plants exposed to various biotic and abiotic stresses, including pesticides. The widespread use of pesticides and agrochemicals in intensive crop production systems is a serious threat to the functionality and sustainability of agroecosystems. Pesticide accumulation in soil may disrupt soil–plant relationships, thereby posing a pollution risk to agricultural output. Application of metabolomic techniques in the assessment of the biological consequences of pesticides at the molecular level has emerged as a crucial technique in exposome investigations. State-of-the-art metabolomic approaches such as GC–MS, LC–MS/MS UHPLC, UPLC–IMS–QToF, GC/EI/MS, MALDI-TOF MS, and 1H-HR-MAS NMR, etc., investigating the harmful effects of agricultural pesticides have been reviewed. This updated review seeks to outline the key uses of metabolomics related to the evaluation of the toxicological impacts of pesticides on agronomically important crops in exposome assays as well as bench-scale studies. Overall, this review describes the potential uses of metabolomics as a method for evaluating the safety of agricultural chemicals for regulatory applications. Additionally, the most recent developments in metabolomic tools applied to pesticide toxicology and also the difficulties in utilizing this approach are discussed.

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Section: Pesticide Toxicity To Agricultural Crops: a Burning Problemmentioning

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“…The number of products and their use increased sharply after the war. In particular, new herbicides were developed and the use of these increased during the 1960s [41].…”

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A Review on the Colorimetric Pesticide Assay Test for Safe and Sustainable Agriculture with Special Reference to Clean Food Production

Bera¹,

Datta²,

Bose³

et al. 2022

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Background: The World Health Organization (WHO) states that “If it is not safe, it is not food”, as it does not serve its purpose to provide proper and safe nutrition. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reiterates that Sustainable Agriculture that seeks to increase yields while limiting the need for application of pesticides or synthetic fertilizers; only can relate Food Security with Food Safety. As the second largest agrarian country of the world, India has also become one of the largest users of pesticides. Surveys have shown that Indian food is laced with one of the highest amount of toxic pesticide residues in the world. Hence, analysis of pesticide residues in food has become the governing criteria for ensuring food safety. The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) have laid down science based standards towards food safety based on the Codex standards, which are the reference for the international trade in food. However, it has been found that pesticide monitoring in food is most difficult in countries where that monitoring is arguably most needed. This is because the present chromatographic techniques though can precisely determine the presence of every chemical at the minute level but the process is hugely expensive, complex, time-consuming and require specific resources and infrastructure which offer major hindrance towards regular analysis for monitoring of food safety. Especially for a country like India, with absolute dominance of marginal farmers in vegetable cultivation, lack of awareness, resource scarcity, inability to take economic risk and flaws in maintaining the standard practices w.r.t. chemical usage enhances the availability of pesticides in food product. Moreover the short time gap between the field harvest of vegetables and consumption, limits the scope for safety analysis even if the infrastructure and economics is not considered. In this background an effective, simple, and affordable method is needed to enable pesticide residue analysis in situations of limited resources more so for Safe & Sustainable Agriculture Scope & Approach: In this scenario, the Colorimetric Pesticide Assay Test can be a Real Game Changer in the Food Safety Arena and a Crucial ‘Sustainability Tool’ for Safe & Sustainable Agriculture. This test method although utilized round the globe to identify the pesticides residues both in a quantitative and qualitative manner, lack a standard protocol towards safety evaluation of vegetables in terms of detecting the presence/absence of the major pesticide groups. Another crucial point is how to measure in the most affordable and transparent manner. Then it has to be made available for small, marginal and resource poor farmers, who are more than 95% of the total farming community. Inhana Organic Research Foundation (IORF), Kolkata in collaboration with Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Nadia (ICAR) initiated a research work in June, 2020 to develop a Protocol for Colorimetric Pesticide Assay Test of vegetables with the objectives of (i) Most Authentic and Speedy Measurement of the major groups of pesticides viz. organochlorine, organophosphate, synthetic pyrethroids, carbamates and neonicotinoids, that are used during vegetable production, (ii) Identifying the collective presence/ absence of the pesticide residues up to the lowest- group specific permissible limits (same type of pesticides in terms of chemical structure) and (iii) Standardization of the Method towards its effective utilization for large scale Pesticide Residue Study in the most economical manner. The Support from IBM, India for Clean Food Production – A Safe and Sustainable Agricultural Initiative; helped in the efforts to standardize the Colorimetric Assay Test Protocol towards safety evaluation of the vegetables. The standardization process involved the analysis of more than 1200 samples of 30 major vegetables produced in India. Vegetable samples were sourced from open markets, certified organic counters and from the farmers’ field where the concept of Clean Food Program was 1st initiated by IORF in collaboration with KVK, Nadia (ICAR). Also the vegetable samples were sourced during different seasons i.e., winter (Period : November – February), monsoon (Period : July – October) and summer (Period : March – June). Key Findings & Conclusion: The newly standardized Colorimetric Pesticide Assay Test Protocol can enable detection of the collective presence/ absence of pesticides up to group specific- lowest permissible limit; for more than 90 percent of the pesticides- permitted for use in India, for most of the banned chemicals, as well as chances of residual presence in case of chemicals like DDT and its isomer. In addition; this Assay Test protocol can also be utilized for detecting the presence/ absence of toxic heavy metals such as Hg2+, Cd2+, Cu2+, Pb2+ and a wide range of other toxic substance of known/unknown origin related to human health and safety. Moreover the Colorimetric Pesticide Assay Test Protocol opens up the scope for large scale and frequent food safety analysis due to the affordable cost (1/10th to 1/15th of the Conventional Cost of Residue Analysis) and significant reduction in the analysis time (1/10th of the time required for Residue Analysis using High Performance Liquid Chromatography, HPLC).

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“…Herbicides have been described as biologically active compounds utilized in the eradication of unwanted plants (Janaki et al, 2015;Mesnage et al, 2021). Commercial agricultural activities such as cash and tree crops cultivation are known to be reliant on the application of herbicides for weed control with the related objectives of maximization of crop yield and economic benefits to sustain a continually increasing global human population (Mesnage et al, 2021). Herbicides are known to differ with respect to their persistence rates in soil and examples of persistent herbicides include; triazines, uracils, phenylureas, isoxazolidinones, imidazolinones coupled with several flora growth regulators which belong to the pyridine group (Jaboro et al, 2019).…”

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“…The fate of herbicides has become an important environmental issue, in view of the fact that targeted flora are only affected by low concentration of the applied chemicals (Sarkar, et al, 2021), which has led to the greater likelihood of negative health effects on non-target fauna and flora arising from exposure to these applied chemicals (Mesnage et al, 2021). Herbicides are essential chemicals for agriculture, but under some circumstances, they are also known to function as contaminants that can damage soils, groundwater, and surface water supplies (Mesnage et al, 2021).…”

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Biodegradation potentials of edaphic bacterial isolates cultured on Haloxyfop R Methyl ester herbicide-mineral salt medium

Obayagbona,

Dunkwu-Okafor,

Odigie

et al. 2024

Nig. J. Biotechnol

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The heterotrophic and haloxyfop-R methyl ester utilizing bacterial counts associated with top soil samples was evaluated. Three (3) bacterial isolates; Bacillus sp., Micrococcus sp. and Staphylococcus sp. were cultured and screened for their ability to utilize haloxyfop-R methyl ester as sole source of carbon and energy using the turbidimeteric procedure. The growth profiles of two axenic cultures; Bacillus sp. and Micrococcus sp. were determined using the shake flask test. Parameters which included pH, mean viable bacterial counts, optical density and dissolved CO2 were determined during growth profiling using relevant procedures and equipment. The pH of the soil samples was 5.08 ± 0.02 for sample A and 4.62 ± 0.02 for sample B. The total heterotrophic bacterial count was 2.8 × 104 cfu/g ± 849 for A and 4.62 × 104 cfu/g ± 989 for B. The mean dissolved CO2 data for Micrococcus sp. during the growth profile study ranged from 1.1 mg/l ± 0.1 to 6.8 mg/l ± 0.2. Axenic Micrococcus sp. was the most effective amongst the growth profile cultures in mineralizing the herbicide content of the culture medium.

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Herbicides: Brief history, agricultural use, and potential alternatives for weed control

Cited by 17 publications

References 38 publications

Metabolomics-Based Mechanistic Insights into Revealing the Adverse Effects of Pesticides on Plants: An Interactive Review

Metabolomics-Based Mechanistic Insights into Revealing the Adverse Effects of Pesticides on Plants: An Interactive Review

A Review on the Colorimetric Pesticide Assay Test for Safe and Sustainable Agriculture with Special Reference to Clean Food Production

Biodegradation potentials of edaphic bacterial isolates cultured on Haloxyfop R Methyl ester herbicide-mineral salt medium

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