Mechanisms of cuticular uptake of xenobiotics into living plants: 1. Influence of xenobiotic dose on the uptake of three model compounds applied in the absence and presence of surfactants into Chenopodium album, Hedera helix and Stephanotis floribunda leaves
✍ Scribed by W Alison Forster; Jerzy A Zabkiewicz; Markus Riederer
- Book ID
- 105359555
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 183 KB
- Volume
- 60
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1526-498X
- DOI
- 10.1002/ps.918
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
This study determined the uptake of three model compounds, applied in the presence and absence of surfactants, into the leaves of three plant species (Chenopodium album L, Hedera helix L and Stephanotis floribunda Brongn). The results with 2‐deoxy‐D‐glucose, 2,4‐dichlorophenoxyacetic acid and epoxiconazole in the presence of surfactants (the polyethylene glycol monododecyl ethers C~12~EO~3~, C~12~EO~6~, C~12~EO~10~ and a trisiloxane ethoxylate with mean EO of 7.5, all used at one equimolar concentration and therefore different percentage concentrations) illustrate that the initial dose (nmol mm^−2^) of xenobiotic applied to plant foliage is a strong positive determinant of uptake. This held true for all the xenobiotics studied over a wide concentration range in the presence of these surfactants. Uptake on a unit area basis (nmol mm^−2^) could be related to the initial dose of xenobiotic applied per unit area (ID) by an equation of the form: Uptake = a [ID]^b^ at time t = 24 h. ID is given by the mass of xenobiotic applied, M divided by the droplet spread area, A. Total mass uptake is then calculated from an equation of the form: Total Uptake = a [ID]^b^·A. Copyright © 2004 Society of Chemical Industry