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Environmental behaviors of spirotetramat in water

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Spirotetramat is a pesticide with bidirectional systemicity in both xylem and phloem. Currently, researches show that spirotetramat has definite toxicity to aquatic organism. This paper aims to study the environmental behaviors of spirotetramat in water, in the hope of providing guidance for security evaluation of spirotetramat. The researches in this paper showed that under lighting condition, the half-life period of spirotetramat in water was 13.59 days. In water, spirotetramat could be degraded into B-enol and B-keto. As seen from the residual concentrations of two products, B-enol was the dominant degradation product. Under different temperatures, the hydrolysis products of spirotetramat remain B-enol and B-keto. The temperature has little effect on the residual concentration of spirotetramat in water. The residual concentration of B-enol in water gradually increased with the extension of time but B-keto had no significant change. In the buffer solution of different pH values, the degradation rate of spirotetramat was significantly enhanced with the increase of solution pH value. The hydrolysis products of spirotetramat in buffer solution of different pH values were still B-enol and B-keto, and pH exerted certain influence on the residual concentration of B-enol in water. The hydrolysis conversion of spirotetramat has theoretical and practical significance for the safe and reasonable usage of it, as well as for the further evaluation of spirotetramat’s ecological risk in water.

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We gratefully acknowledge the financial support received from Key Research and Development Program of Jiangsu Province (BE2017344), Six Talent Peaks Project in Jiangsu Province (NY-101) Key Research and Development Program of Yangzhou City (YZ2016252), and Postgraduate Research Innovation Program of Jiangsu Province (XKYCX17_057).

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  1. Joint International Research Laboratory of Agriculture and Agri-Product Safety (Yangzhou University), Jiangsu, Yangzhou, 225009, People’s Republic of China

    Xiaojun Chen, Li Ren, Zhiyuan Meng, Qingxia Zhang, Yueyi Song, Lingjun Guan, Tianle Fan, Yuwei Xu & Dianjing Shen

  2. School of Horticulture and Plant Protection, Yangzhou University, Jiangsu, Yangzhou, 225009, People’s Republic of China

    Xiaojun Chen, Li Ren, Zhiyuan Meng, Qingxia Zhang, Yueyi Song, Lingjun Guan, Tianle Fan, Yuwei Xu & Dianjing Shen

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Chen, X., Ren, L., Meng, Z. et al. Environmental behaviors of spirotetramat in water. Environ Sci Pollut Res 25, 24162–24171 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-018-2462-8

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