Health and Environmental Concerns Over the Use of Fumigants in Agriculture: The Case of Methyl Bromide

Honaganahalli, Puttanna S.; Seiber, James N.

doi:10.1021/bk-1997-0652.ch001

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“…However, with the increasing awareness of sustainable agricultural practices, several fumigants such as 1,3-dichloropropene and chloropicrin have been restricted due to their negative impacts on the environment. Even methyl bromide was banned in 2004 by the Montreal Protocol for its ability to deplete the ozone layer and increase global warming [18]. More issues are raised by using pesticides that are not effective enough against a wider spectrum of diseases due to their negative effects on beneficial soil organisms [19] or that kill non-target organisms such as insects (bees), fishes, birds and other wildlife organisms [20] or have direct impact on humans and foods [21].…”

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RETRACTED: Soil Microbiome Manipulation Gives New Insights in Plant Disease-Suppressive Soils from the Perspective of a Circular Economy: A Critical Review

Corato

2020

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This review pays attention to the newest insights on the soil microbiome in plant disease-suppressive soil (DSS) for sustainable plant health management from the perspective of a circular economy that provides beneficial microbiota by recycling agro-wastes into the soil. In order to increase suppression of soil-borne plant pathogens, the main goal of this paper is to critically discuss and compare the potential use of reshaped soil microbiomes by assembling different agricultural practices such as crop selection; land use and conservative agriculture; crop rotation, diversification, intercropping and cover cropping; compost and chitosan application; and soil pre-fumigation combined with organic amendments and bio-organic fertilizers. This review is seen mostly as a comprehensive understanding of the main findings regarding DSS, starting from the oldest concepts to the newest challenges, based on the assumption that sustainability for soil quality and plant health is increasingly viable and supported by microbiome-assisted strategies based on the next-generation sequencing (NGS) methods that characterize in depth the soil bacterial and fungal communities. This approach, together with the virtuous reuse of agro-wastes to produce in situ green composts and organic bio-fertilizers, is the best way to design new sustainable cropping systems in a circular economy system. The current knowledge on soil-borne pathogens and soil microbiota is summarized. How microbiota determine soil suppression and what NGS strategies are available to understand soil microbiomes in DSS are presented. Disturbance of soil microbiota based on combined agricultural practices is deeply considered. Sustainable soil microbiome management by recycling in situ agro-wastes is presented. Afterwards, how the resulting new insights can drive the progress in sustainable microbiome-based disease management is discussed.

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RETRACTED: Soil Microbiome Manipulation Gives New Insights in Plant Disease-Suppressive Soils from the Perspective of a Circular Economy: A Critical Review

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2020

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“…Since methyl bromide (MeBr) was phased out because of its contribution to the depletion of stratospheric ozone (Honaganahalli and Seiber, 1997), alternatives such as 1,3-dichloropropene (1,3-D) and chloropicrin (CP) have been used broadly. In recent years, additional potential MeBr alternatives have emerged.…”

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Effect of application rate on fumigant degradation in five agricultural soils

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et al. 2016

Science of The Total Environment

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“…In 1993, methyl bromide was classified as a class I ozone-depleting substance under the provisions of an international treaty known as Montreal Protocol for substances that deplete ozone. At this time, the Protocol recommended a phase-out of the use and production of methyl bromide in the United States and other developed countries by the year 2010 (Honaganahalli and Seiber 1996). Subsequently, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency acting under the Clean Air Act of 1990 initially set a much stricter phase-out date of January 1, 2001, which was ultimately postponed until January 1, 2005 (Ferguson and Padula 1994;Honaganahalli and Seiber 1996;Noling et al 2011).…”

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Annual Strawberry Response to Clopyralid Applied During Fruiting

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As the amount of methyl bromide approved for use in Florida strawberry diminishes, growers are faced with a forced transition to alternative fumigants. Many of these methyl bromide alternatives have been associated with reductions in weed control, requiring additional but complementary measures. POST herbicide options for annual strawberry are limited, resulting in significant portions of the strawberry acreage in Florida being hand-weeded when troublesome weeds escape conventional control methods. Strawberry has shown acceptable tolerance to clopyralid in other areas and production systems; however, its integration into the Florida production system and ramifications of applications during fruiting warrants further research. Eight trials were conducted, with three common strawberry cultivars grown in West Central Florida subjected to POST spray and drip-tape-injected applications of clopyralid. Formation of new strawberry leaves was not affected by clopyralid application, except for a reduction in new leaves of the cultivar ‘Strawberry Festival' at the highest rate of application of 261 g ae ha−1in comparison with the nontreated control. Strawberry leaf malformation was best explained by an exponential growth equation, whereas marketable yield followed the trend of a Weibull peak. At the maximum labeled rate (66 g ha−1), leaf malformation was less than 5% for all cultivars tested, and marketable yield was estimated at 104% of the nontreated control.

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Health and Environmental Concerns Over the Use of Fumigants in Agriculture: The Case of Methyl Bromide

Cited by 11 publications

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RETRACTED: Soil Microbiome Manipulation Gives New Insights in Plant Disease-Suppressive Soils from the Perspective of a Circular Economy: A Critical Review

RETRACTED: Soil Microbiome Manipulation Gives New Insights in Plant Disease-Suppressive Soils from the Perspective of a Circular Economy: A Critical Review

Effect of application rate on fumigant degradation in five agricultural soils

Annual Strawberry Response to Clopyralid Applied During Fruiting

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