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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
1997-10-16
pubmed:abstractText
Propanil (3',4'-dichloropropionanilide), the active ingredient in the herbicide Stam M-4, is possibly the most extensively used herbicide for rice production in the world. Propanil and its metabolites are transported within characteristic ditch ecosystems in the production landscape of northeast Arkansas. Runoff from these ditch ecosystems is further transported to a river or other water body supplied by the Mississippi River Alluvial aquifer. Forty-eight-hour acute toxicity tests with Ceriodaphnia dubia (cladoceran) and Pimphales promelas (fathead minnow) were conducted on stormwater runoff, laboratory synthetic water, and irrigation (ground) water. No effects on survival were observed in this study following 48-h toxicity testing with the stormwater. Survival studies indicated assimilative capacity in irrigation (ground) water as opposed to laboratory synthetic water. Mean 48-h LC50s of C. dubia increased from 2.94 mg/L Stam M-4 in laboratory synthetic water to 8.01 mg/L Stam M-4 in irrigation water. Likewise, P. promelas mean 48-h LC50s increased from 23.76 (laboratory synthetic water) to 33.52 mg/L Stam(R)M-4 (ground water). In 7-d chronic tests, there was an increase in mean LC50s of C. dubia when comparing synthetic water to irrigation water (0.48 to 1.24 mg/L Stam M-4, respectively). P. promelas, however, had less tolerance for Stam M-4 in irrigation water (4.45 mg/L) than in synthetic water (5.93 mg/L) in 7-d chronic toxicity tests. Forty-eight-hour toxicity tests indicate that ground water affords organisms some assimilative capacity that laboratory synthetic water does not. Since herbicides and most other pesticides are manufactured to elicit rapid responses, 48-h toxicity results best describe potential nontarget organism effects in aquatic ecosystems.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Aug
pubmed:issn
0090-4341
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
33
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
199-202
pubmed:dateRevised
2000-12-18
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1997
pubmed:articleTitle
Acute and chronic toxicity of the herbicide Stam M-4 in field and laboratory exposures.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Biology, University of Mississippi, University, Mississippi 38677, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article