Free Standard AU & NZ Shipping For All Book Orders Over $80!
Register      Login
Soil Research Soil Research Society
Soil, land care and environmental research
Shopping Cart: ( empty )
You are here: Home > Journals > SR > SR05173
RESEARCH ARTICLE
Contents Vol 44(6)

The sorption and degradation of the rice pesticides fipronil and thiobencarb on two Australian rice soils

Gregory Doran A C D , Philip Eberbach A C and Stuart Helliwell A B
+ Author Affiliations
- Author Affiliations

A CRC for Sustainable Rice Production and EH Graham Centre for Agricultural Innovation.

B School of Science and Technology, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, NSW 2678, Australia.

C School of Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, NSW 2678, Australia.

D Corresponding author. Email: gdoran@csu.edu.au

Australian Journal of Soil Research 44(6) 599-610 https://doi.org/10.1071/SR05173
Submitted: 28 October 2005  Accepted: 31 May 2006   Published: 15 September 2006

Abstract

The sorption and degradation of the rice pesticides fipronil and thiobencarb on 2 Australian rice-growing soils were investigated. Greater sorption of both pesticides occurred on the soil containing less organic carbon, possibly as a result of the type of organic carbon present, rather than the absolute amount. While sorption tended to appear greater in the 0–10 mm layer than the 10–20 mm layer, analysis showed the difference was not significant (P > 0.05). Under aerobic conditions, a lag period of 20 days in the degradation of thiobencarb occurred on the Yanco soil, but rapid degradation occurred on the Coleambally soil, and, while unlikely, may have been a consequence of preconditioning of the Coleambally soil microbial population. Degradation of thiobencarb under both non-flooded anaerobic and flooded anaerobic conditions differed significantly (P < 0.05) compared to aerobic conditions. Conversely, fipronil degraded rapidly over the first few days and then slowed, and was attributed to the co-metabolism of fipronil by soil microbes. While fipronil sulfide was produced under all oxic/anoxic conditions, its concentration was greatest under flooded anaerobic conditions, possibly as a result of greater exclusion of oxygen from the soil by the floodwater.


Acknowledgments

The authors would like to thank the CRC for Sustainable Rice Production for providing the funding to undertake the work reported, and the EH Graham Centre for Agricultural Innovation for financially supporting the senior author during the writing up of this work.


References


Aajoud A, Ravanel P, Tissut M (2003) Fipronil metabolism and dissipation in a simplified aquatic ecosystem. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 51, 1347–1352.
| Crossref | GoogleScholarGoogle Scholar | PubMed | open url image1

Bartlett RJ (1981) Oxidation-reduction status of aerobic soils. In ‘Chemistry in the soil environment’. (Eds RH Dowdy, JA Ryan, VV Volk, DE Baker) pp. 77–102. (Soil Science Society of America: Madison, WI)

Beigel C, Barriuso E, Calvet R (1998) Sorption of low levels of nonionic and anionic surfactants on soil: effects on sorption of triticonazole fungicide. Pesticide Science 54, 52–60.
| Crossref | GoogleScholarGoogle Scholar | open url image1

Bobe A, Cooper J, Coste CM, Muller M (1998) Behaviour of fipronil in soil under Sahelian Plain field conditions. Pesticide Science 52, 275–281.
| Crossref | GoogleScholarGoogle Scholar | open url image1

Bobe A, Coste CM, Cooper JF (1997) Factors influencing the adsorption of fipronil on soils. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 45, 4861–4865.
| Crossref | GoogleScholarGoogle Scholar | open url image1

Braverman MP, Dusky JA, Locascio SJ, Hornsby AG (1990) Sorption and degradation of thiobencarb in three Florida soils. Weed Science 38, 583–588. open url image1

Burford JR, Bremner JM (1975) Relationships between the denitrification capacities of soils and total, water-soluble and readily decomposable soil organic matter. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 7, 389–394.
| Crossref | GoogleScholarGoogle Scholar | open url image1

Ceesay S (2000) ‘Environmental fate of thiobencarb.’ (California EPA: California, CA)

Cheng HM (1990) Identification of benthiocarb degradation products in chlorination water—A simulated water treatment for drinking water. Journal of the Chinese Agricultural Chemical Society 28, 77–85. open url image1

Chiang HC, Duh JR, Wang YS (2001) Butachlor, thiobencarb, and chlomethoxyfen movement in subtropical soils. Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology 66, 1–8.
| Crossref | GoogleScholarGoogle Scholar | PubMed | open url image1

Chiang HC, Yen JH, Wang YS (1997) Sorption of herbicides butachlor, thiobencarb, and chlomethoxyfen in soils. Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology 58, 758–763.
| Crossref | GoogleScholarGoogle Scholar | PubMed | open url image1

Clampett WS , Stevens MM (2000) Production of quality rice in south-eastern Australia—Rice Notes Supplement. NSW Department of Agriculture, NSW, Australia.

Doran G, Helliwell S, Eberbach P (2005) Extraction of fipronil and thiobencarb from anaerobic water samples using solid-phase extraction. Journal of AOAC International 88, 854–859.
| PubMed |
open url image1

Duah-Yentumi S, Kuwatsuka S (1980) Effect of organic matter and chemical fertilizers on the degradation of benthiocarb and MCPA herbicides in the soil. Soil Science and Plant Nutrition 26, 541–549. open url image1

Eberbach P (1998) Applying non-steady-state compartmental analysis to investigate the simultaneous degradation of soluble and sorbed glyphosate (N-(phosphonomethyl)glycine) in four soils. Pesticide Science 52, 229–240.
| Crossref | GoogleScholarGoogle Scholar | open url image1

Felsot A, Dahm PA (1979) Sorption of organophosphorus and carbamate insecticides by soil. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 27, 557–563.
| Crossref | GoogleScholarGoogle Scholar | open url image1

Gee GW , Bauder JW (1986) Particle-size analysis. In ‘Methods of soil analysis. Part 1, Physical and minerological methods’. Ch. 5. (Ed. A Klute) pp. 383–411. (Soil Science Society of America: Madison, WI)

Giles CH, MacEwan T, Nakhwa SN, Smith DA (1960) Studies in adsorption. Part XI. A system of classification of solution adsorption isotherms, and its use in diagnosis of adsorption mechanisms and in measurement of specific surface areas of solids. Journal of the Chemical Society 111, 3973–3993. open url image1

Grundmann GL (2004) Spatial scales of soil bacterial diversity—the size of a clone. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 48, 119–127.
| Crossref | GoogleScholarGoogle Scholar | open url image1

Guenzi WD, Beard WE (1968) Anaerobic conversion of DDT to DDD and aerobic stability of DDT in soil. Soil Science Society of America Proceedings 32, 522–524. open url image1

Hamaker JW (1972) Decomposition: quantitative aspects. In ‘Organic chemicals in the soil environment’. (Eds CAI Goring, JW Hamaker) pp. 253–340. (Marcel Dekker: New York)

Harrison I, Leader RU, Higgo JJW, Williams GM (1998) A study of the degradation of phenoxyacid herbicides at different sites in a limestone aquifer. Chemosphere 36, 1211–1232.
| Crossref | GoogleScholarGoogle Scholar | PubMed | open url image1

Heanes DL (1984) Determination of total organic-C in soils by an improved chromic acid digestion and spectrophotometric procedure. Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis 15, 1191–1213. open url image1

Howell DC (2002) ‘Statistical methods for psychology.’ (Wadsworth: California, CA)

Isbell RF (1996) ‘The Australian Soil Classification.’ (CSIRO Publishing: Melbourne)

Ishikawa K, Nakamura Y, Kuwatsuka S (1976) Degradation of benthiocarb herbicide in soil. Journal of Pesticide Science 1, 49–57. open url image1

Ishikawa K, Nakamura Y, Kuwatsuka S (1977) Volatilization of benthiocarb herbicide from the aqueous solution and soil. Journal of Pesticide Science 2, 127–134. open url image1

Kamm JA, Montgomery ML (1990) Reduction of insecticide activity by carbon residue produced by burning grass seed fields after harvest. Journal of Economic Entomology 83, 55–58. open url image1

Kanazawa J (1989) Relationship between the soil sorption constants for pesticides and their physicochemical properties. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 8, 477–484. open url image1

Kawamoto K, Urano K (1990) Parameters for predicting fate of organochlorine pesticides in the environment (III). Biodegradation rate constants. Chemosphere 21, 1141–1152.
| Crossref | GoogleScholarGoogle Scholar | open url image1

Kibe K, Takahashi M, Kameya T, Urano K (2000) Adsorption equilibriums of principal herbicides on paddy soils in Japan. The Science of the Total Environment 263, 115–125.
| Crossref | GoogleScholarGoogle Scholar | PubMed | open url image1

Kuhlmann B, Kaczmarczyk B (1995) Biodegradation of the herbicides 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid, 2,4,5-trichlorophenoxyacetic acid, and 2-methyl-4-chlorophenoxyacetic acid in a sulfate-reducing aquifer. Environmental Toxicology and Water Quality 10, 119–125. open url image1

McBain ADK, Senior E, Paterson A, du Plessis CA, Watson-Craik IA (1996) Bioremediation of soil contaminated with 4-chloro-2-methyl-phenoxyacetic acid (MCPA): Essential laboratory studies. South African Journal of Science 92, 426–430. open url image1

Mulrooney JE, Goli D (1999) Efficacy and degradation of fipronil applied to cotton for control of Anthonomus grandis grandis (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). Journal of Economic Entomology 92, 1364–1368. open url image1

Nakamura Y, Ishikawa K, Kuwatsuka S (1977) Degradation of benthiocarb in soils as affected by soil conditions. Journal of Pesticide Science 2, 7–16. open url image1

Piscureanu A, Pop T, Dogaru M, Piscureanu M, Manaila-Maximean D (2001) Influence of non-ionic surfactants on surface activity of pesticide colloidal systems. Colloids and Surfaces A-Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects 178, 129–133.
| Crossref | GoogleScholarGoogle Scholar | open url image1

Pratley JE , Broster JC , Flower GE , Flower R (2001) Herbicide resistance in the rice growing regions of southern Australia. Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation, Australia.

Singh RP, Kumar R (2000) Evaluation of the effect of surfactants on the movement of pesticides in soils using a soil thin-layer chromatography technique. Soil and Sediment Contamination 9, 407–423.
| Crossref | GoogleScholarGoogle Scholar | open url image1

The British Crop Protection Council (2000) ‘The pesticide manual.’ (The British Crop Protection Council: Surrey, UK)

Toth J (1973) Burning reduces herbicide effect. The Agricultural Gazette of NSW 84, 62. open url image1

Toth J, Milham PJ, Raison JM (1981) Ash from rice stubble inactivates thiobencarb and molinate. Weed Research 21, 113–117.
| Crossref | GoogleScholarGoogle Scholar | open url image1

Tsukano Y (1986) Transformations of selected pesticides in flooded rice-field soil—A review. Journal of Contaminant Hydrology 1, 47–63.
| Crossref | GoogleScholarGoogle Scholar | open url image1

Vink JPM, van der Zee SEATM (1997) Effect of oxygen status on pesticide transformation and sorption in undisturbed soil and lake sediment. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 16, 608–616.
| Crossref | GoogleScholarGoogle Scholar | open url image1

Walse SS, Pennington PL, Scott GI, Ferry JL (2004) The fate of fipronil in modular estuarine mesocosms. Journal of Environmental Monitoring 6, 58–64.
| Crossref | GoogleScholarGoogle Scholar | PubMed | open url image1

Yang YN, Sheng GY (2003a) Enhanced pesticide sorption by soils containing particulate matter from crop residue burns. Environmental Science and Technology 37, 3635–3639.
| Crossref | GoogleScholarGoogle Scholar | PubMed | open url image1

Yang YN, Sheng GY (2003b) Pesticide adsorptivity of aged particulate matter arising from crop residue burns. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 51, 5047–5051.
| Crossref | GoogleScholarGoogle Scholar | PubMed | open url image1

Ying GG, Kookana RS (2001) Sorption of fipronil and its metabolites on soils from South Australia. Journal of Environmental Science & Health—Part B. Pesticides, Food Contaminants, & Agricultural Wastes 36, 545–558.
| Crossref | GoogleScholarGoogle Scholar | open url image1

Ying GG, Kookana RS (2002) Laboratory and field studies on the degradation of fipronil in a soil. Australian Journal of Soil Research 40, 1095–1102.
| Crossref | GoogleScholarGoogle Scholar | open url image1

Zhang P, Sheng GY, Wolf DC, Feng YC (2004) Reduced biodegradation of benzonitrile in soil containing wheat residue-derived ash. Journal of Environmental Quality 33, 868–872.
| PubMed |
open url image1