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Efficacy of embedded metribuzin and tribenuron-methyl herbicides in field-grown vegetable crops infested by weeds

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The purpose of the present study was to investigate the efficacy of the experimental formulations of the metribuzin (MET) and tribenuron-methyl (TBM) herbicides embedded in the matrix of degradable poly-3-hydroxybutyrate blended with wood flour in field-grown tomato and beet crops infested by weeds. There is a necessity to develop environmentally friendly and effective means to protect plants because of the shortcomings of the free herbicide forms such as the environmentally unsafe spray application of solutions and suspensions of the widespread metribuzin and tribenuron-methyl herbicides, removal from soil during watering events and rains, and transport to natural aquatic environments, where the herbicides accumulate in the trophic chains of biota. Free TBM is also rapidly inactivated in soil and metabolized to nontoxic products in plants. The efficacy of experimental formulations of metribuzin and tribenuron-methyl embedded in the matrix of degradable poly-3-hydroxybutyrate blended with wood flour was tested in field-grown tomato and beet crops infested with weeds. Application of metribuzin resulted in the highest productivity of tomatoes (2.3 kg/m2) and table beet (3.4 kg/m2), improved biometric parameters of tomato fruits and beet roots, and caused reduction in nitrate nitrogen concentrations in them. The mode of herbicide delivery did not affect sugar contents, but application of both metribuzin and tribenuron-methyl induced a 1.7-fold and 1.4-fold, respectively, increase in vitamin C concentrations in tomato fruits and beet roots relative to the vegetables grown on the subplots treated with free herbicides and the intact plants. Embedded herbicides can be used as preemergence herbicides in the field.

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This work was supported by Project “Agropreparations of the new generation: a strategy of construction and realization” [Agreement No 074-02-2018-328] in accordance with Resolution No 220 of the Government of the Russian Federation of April 9, 2010, “On measures designed to attract leading scientists to the Russian institutions of higher learning”.

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  1. Siberian Federal University, 79 Svobodnyi av., Krasnoyarsk, 660041, Russia

    Tatyana Volova, Alexey Demidenko, Sergey Baranovsky, Olga Petrovskaya & Anna Shumilova

  2. Institute of Biophysics SB RAS, Federal Research Center “Krasnoyarsk Science Center SB RAS”, 50/50 Akademgorodok, Krasnoyarsk, 660036, Russia

    Tatyana Volova & Alexey Demidenko

  3. Krasnoyarsk State Agrarian University, 90 Mir av., Krasnoyarsk, 660049, Russia

    Natalia Kurachenko

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Volova, T., Demidenko, A., Kurachenko, N. et al. Efficacy of embedded metribuzin and tribenuron-methyl herbicides in field-grown vegetable crops infested by weeds. Environ Sci Pollut Res 28, 982–994 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-020-10359-1

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