Acid-delinted cottonseeds were treated with 0.5% (w/w) [35S]-or [iV-Me-14C]thiofanox (P), 3,3-dimethyl-1 -(methylthio)-2-butanone 0 -[(methylamino)carbonyl]oxime, before planting. This insecticide was readily taken up by the young seedlings and translocated to the cotyledons and developing leaves where it was rapidly metabolized to its sulfoxide (Pi), 3,3-dimethyl-1 -(methylsulfinyl)-2-butanone 0-[(methylamino)carbonyl]oxime.The level of Pi declined in the cotton leaves with time resulting in the formation of the sulfone (P2), 3,3-dimethyl-l-(methylsulfonyl)-2-butanone 0-[(methylamino)carbonyl]oxime, and water-soluble metabolites. Cottonseeds from laboratory and field plants grown from thiofanox-treated seeds contained less than 5 ppb of carbamate residues.Thiofanox (P), 3,3 -dimethyl-1 -(methylthio) -2 -butanone 0-[(methylamino)carbonyl]oxime, is a potent contact and systemic insecticide being developed by Diamond Shamrock Corporation. When applied to cottonseeds or in the seed furrow at planting, P is readily absorbed and translocated to the plant foliage where it controls many foliar' feeding pests including a number of species from the following orders: Coleóptera, Homoptera, Dyptera, Thysanoptera, and Acariña. In cotton, thiofanox has demonstrated control for up to 8 weeks on thrips, Frankliniella spp.; cotton aphid, Aphis gossypii Glover; cotton fleahopper, Pseudatomescelis beriatus (Reuter); and spider mites, Tetranychus spp., when applied in the seed furrow at the time cotton is planted (Davis and Cowan, 1974) and when applied as a 0.5% by weight seed treatment (Diamond Shamrock Corporation Technical Bulletin, 1973).Whitten and Bull (1974) studied the metabolism of relabeled P in cotton plants and soil. They report rapid oxidation of P to its sulfoxide (Pi), 3,3-dimethyl-l-(methylsulfinyl)-2-butanone 0-[(methylamino)carbonyl]oxime, and sulfone (P2), 3,3-dimethyl-l-(methylsulfonyl)-2-butanone 0 -[(methylamino)carbonyl] oxime. Further degradation of
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