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Assessing the Effects of ?-Triketone Herbicides on the Soil Bacterial and hppd Communities: A Lab-to-Field Experiment.

ABSTRACT: Maize cultivators often use ?-triketone herbicides to prevent the growth of weeds in their fields. These herbicides target the 4-HPPD enzyme of dicotyledons. This enzyme, encoded by the hppd gene, is widespread among all living organisms including soil bacteria, which are considered as "non-target organisms" by the legislation. Within the framework of the pesticide registration process, the ecotoxicological impact of herbicides on soil microorganisms is solely based on carbon and nitrogen mineralization tests. In this study, we used more extensive approaches to assess with a lab-to-field experiment the risk of ?-triketone on the abundance and the diversity of both total and hppd soil bacterial communities. Soil microcosms were exposed, under lab conditions, to 1× or 10× the recommended dose of sulcotrione or its commercial product, Decano^®. Whatever the treatment applied, sulcotrione was fully dissipated from soil after 42 days post-treatment. The abundance and the diversity of both the total and the hppd bacterial communities were not affected by the herbicide treatments all along the experiment. Same measurements were led in real agronomical conditions, on three different fields located in the same area cropped with maize: one not exposed to any plant protection products, another one exposed to a series of plant protection products (PPPs) comprising mesotrione, and a last one exposed to different PPPs including mesotrione and tembotrione, two ?-triketones. In this latter, the abundance of the hppd community varied over time. The diversity of the total and the hppd communities evolved over time independently from the treatment received. Only slight but significant transient effects on the abundance of the hppd community in one of the tested soil were observed. Our results showed that tested ?-triketones have no visible impact toward both total and hppd soil bacteria communities.

SUBMITTER: Thiour-Mauprivez C

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7829504 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Assessing the Effects of β-Triketone Herbicides on the Soil Bacterial and <i>hppd</i> Communities: A Lab-to-Field Experiment.

Thiour-Mauprivez Clémence C Devers-Lamrani Marion M Bru David D Béguet Jérémie J Spor Aymé A Mounier Arnaud A Alletto Lionel L Calvayrac Christophe C Barthelmebs Lise L Martin-Laurent Fabrice F

Frontiers in microbiology 20210111

Maize cultivators often use β-triketone herbicides to prevent the growth of weeds in their fields. These herbicides target the 4-HPPD enzyme of dicotyledons. This enzyme, encoded by the <i>hppd</i> gene, is widespread among all living organisms including soil bacteria, which are considered as "non-target organisms" by the legislation. Within the framework of the pesticide registration process, the ecotoxicological impact of herbicides on soil microorganisms is solely based on carbon and nitrogen ...[more]

PMID: 33505377

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Project description:Pesticides are intentionally applied to agricultural fields for crop protection. They can harm non-target organisms such as soil microorganisms involved in important ecosystem functions with impacts at the global scale. Within the frame of the pesticide registration process, the ecotoxicological impact of pesticides on soil microorganisms is still based on carbon and nitrogen mineralization tests, despite the availability of more extensive approaches analyzing the abundance, activity or diversity of soil microorganisms. In this study, we used a high-density DNA microarray (PhyloChip) and 16S rDNA amplicon next-generation sequencing (NGS) to analyze the impact of the organophosphate insecticide chlorpyrifos (CHL), the phenyl-urea herbicide isoproturon (IPU), or the triazole fungicide tebuconazole (TCZ) on the diversity and composition of the soil bacterial community. To our knowledge, it is the first time that the combination of these approaches are applied to assess the impact of these three pesticides in a lab-to-field experimental design. The PhyloChip analysis revealed that although no significant changes in the composition of the bacterial community were observed in soil microcosms exposed to the pesticides, significant differences in detected operational taxonomic units (OTUs) were observed in the field experiment between pesticide treatments and control for all three tested pesticides after 70 days of exposure. NGS revealed that the bacterial diversity and composition varied over time. This trend was more marked in the microcosm than in the field study. Only slight but significant transient effects of CHL or TCZ were observed in the microcosm and the field study, respectively. IPU was not found to significantly modify the soil bacterial diversity or composition. Our results are in accordance with conclusions of the Environmental Food Safety Authority (EFSA), which concluded that these three pesticides may have a low risk toward soil microorganisms.

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Assessing the Effects of ?-Triketone Herbicides on the Soil Bacterial and hppd Communities: A Lab-to-Field Experiment.

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Assessing the Effects of β-Triketone Herbicides on the Soil Bacterial and <i>hppd</i> Communities: A Lab-to-Field Experiment.

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