Assessing the chemical and biological accessibility of the herbicide isoproturon in soil amended with biochar

Sopena, Fatima and Semple, Kirk and Sohi, Saran and Bending, Gary (2012) Assessing the chemical and biological accessibility of the herbicide isoproturon in soil amended with biochar. Chemosphere, 88 (1). pp. 77-83. ISSN 0045-6535

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Abstract

There is considerable current interest in using biochar (BC) as a soil amendment to sequester carbon to mitigate climate change. However, the implications of adding BC to agricultural soil for the environmental fate of pesticides remain unclear. In particular, the effect of biochars on desorption behavior of compounds is poorly understood. This study examined the influence of BC on pesticide chemical and biological accessibility using the herbicide isoproturon (IPU). Soils amended with 1% and 2% BC showed enhanced sorption, slower desorption, and reduced biodegradation of IPU. Addition of 0.1% BC had no effect on sorption, desorption or biodegradation of IPU. However, the mineralization of C-14-IPU was reduced by all BC concentrations, reducing by 13.6%, 40.1% and 49.8% at BC concentrations of 0.1%, 1% and 2% respectively. Further, the ratio of the toxic metabolite 4-isopropyl-aniline to intact IPU was substantially reduced by higher BC concentrations. Hydroxypropyl-beta-cyclodextrin (HPCD) extractions were used to estimate the IPU bioaccessibility in the BC-amended soil. Significant correlations were found between HPCD-extracted C-14-IPU and the IPU desorbed (%) (r(2) = 0.8518, p < 0.01), and also the C-14-IPU mineralized (%) (r(2) = 0.733; p < 0.01) for all BC-amended soils. This study clearly demonstrates how desorption in the presence of BC is intimately related to pesticide biodegradation by the indigenous soil microbiota. BC application to agricultural soils can affect the persistence of pesticides as well as the fate of their degradation products. This has important implications for the effectiveness of pesticides as well as the sequestration of contaminants in soils. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Item Type:
Journal Article
Journal or Publication Title:
Chemosphere
Uncontrolled Keywords:
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Subjects:
?? DESORPTIONBIOCHARISOPROTURONAGRICULTURAL SOILENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCEENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRYCHEMISTRY(ALL) ??
ID Code:
58449
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Deposited On:
18 Sep 2012 15:11
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Yes
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Published
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