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Photolytic degradation of 2,4-D on Zea mays leaves

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2017

Ramarao Venkatesh  and
S. Kent Harrison
Ramarao Venkatesh
Affiliation:
Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, Ohio State University, 2021 Coffey Road, Columbus, OH 43210
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Growth chamber experiments were conducted to determine the effects of UV light and riboflavin on photolysis of 2,4-D applied to Zea mays leaves. Droplets of 100 mg L−114C-2,4-D were applied to Z. mays leaves with and without 10 mg L−13H-riboflavin and exposed to either UV-enhanced or UV-attenuated polychromatic light in a time-course assay. Photolysis of nonabsorbed 14C-2,4-D residues on Z. mays leaves was sensitized by riboflavin regardless of UV light regime, but a larger percentage of nonabsorbed herbicide was degraded under UV-enhanced light compared to UV-attenuated light. Riboflavin was almost completely photolyzed during the first 10 h of exposure; yet, photolysis of 14C-2,4-D surface residues in treatments containing riboflavin increased from 59% at 10 h of exposure to 87% at 42 h of exposure. In corresponding treatments without riboflavin, photolysis of 14C-2,4-D surface residues was 37% at 10 h of exposure and 84% at 42 h of exposure. In contrast, only 7% of the 14C-2,4-D deposited on glass microscope slides was degraded after 42 h of exposure in the absence of riboflavin, whereas 59% was degraded in the presence of riboflavin. Photolysis of 2,4-D on Z. mays leaves in treatments without riboflavin suggests that certain epicuticular component(s) of Z. mays acted as photosensitizers or catalytic agents that promoted photolysis of nonabsorbed 2,4-D residues.

Keywords

2,4-Dcorn, Zea mays L. ‘Pioneer 3241.’Absorptionmetabolismphotodegradation
Type
Physiology, Chemistry, and Biochemistry
Information
Weed Science , Volume 47 , Issue 3 , June 1999 , pp. 262 - 269
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Copyright © 1999 by the Weed Science Society of America 

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