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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Fate and Transport of Agricultural Chemicals in the Yazoo River Basin

Coupe, Richard Henry, Jr 05 May 2007 (has links)
The objectives of this research were to examine some representative surface waters in the Yazoo River Basin (YRB) during the growing season for a few selected herbicides; to compare the type and abundance of pesticides in the atmosphere at a agricultural and an urban site; to determine the load of nitrogen and phosphorus being discharged from the YRB to the Mississippi River and ultimately the Gulf of Mexico; to determine how the adsorptive properties of a common Delta soil differ under no-tillage (NT) versus conventional tillage (CT) for two commonly used herbicides; and to validate the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) model for herbicide runoff in the YRB. Herbicides, in low concentrations (generally less than 10 parts per billion) were frequently detected in 3 streams in the YRB throughout the growing season. Pesticides were detected in air and rain samples from both urban and agricultural areas. The concentrations in the agricultural area generally were an order of magnitude higher and types of pesticides detected were different: more insecticides in the urban area and more herbicides in the agricultural area. The annual load of nitrogen being contributed to the Mississippi River from the YRB was less than what might be expected based on discharge, and the load of phosphorus was slightly higher than what might be expected. The amount of atrazine and fluometuron adsorbed was similar for a soil under CT and NT, but much more herbicide was adsorbed by the NT soil. At the scale of the Bogue Phalia Basin (too large for specific information to be available and too small for averaging to eliminate the need for site specific data) there are considerable uncertainties associated with input data and these, together with the simplifying assumptions within the model, mean that SWAT should not be used to predict the exact date, time, and concentration of a pesticide in a stream. However, the model does offer the potential to assess the likelihood of contamination of surface waters by a given compound in a given situation and as such could provide a useful tool for planning, management and regulatory purposes.
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Molecular mechanisms of plant-xenobiotic interactions : involvement of stress, development and hormone signaling regulations / Mécanismes moléculaires des interactions plante xénobiotique : implication de la régulation des signalisations liées au stress, au développement et aux voies hormonales

Alberto, Diana 20 December 2017 (has links)
Les herbicides sont des polluants suscitant de grandes inquiétudes en raison de leur ubiquité environnementale résultant de leur usage intensif dans l’agriculture moderne et de leur persistance dans les sols et les eaux. Les herbicides peuvent être dégradés par des microorganismes, des plantes ou d’autres processus naturels, produisant alors une vaste gamme de métabolites dont l’impact sur les écosystèmes reste méconnu. Dans un contexte d’évaluation des risques environnementaux, l’étude de la réponse des plantes à des mélanges complexes de xénobiotiques est importante pour estimer les effets des contaminations, notamment dans le cas de pollution résiduelle. Afin d’étudier l’impact de cette diversité de polluants, les mécanismes de réponse et les cibles impliquées, la plante modèle Arabidopsis thaliana a été confrontée à des doses variables de molécules de la famille des triazines constituant une série chimique cohérente : atrazine, herbicide encore largement utilisé au niveau mondial, déséthylatrazine, métabolite chloré de l’atrazine, et hydroxyatrazine, métabolite de déchloration de l’atrazine. Ce travail montre que l’exposition de courte durée à des doses variables d’atrazine, de déséthylatrazine et d’hydroxyatrazine, au niveau racinaire, affecte de manière spécifique et dose-dépendante la croissance précoce et le développement de la plante. La caractérisation d’effets directs et multiples sur la respiration et la croissance racinaire a permis de révéler des mécanismes d’action non-canoniques, distincts de l’action classiquement décrite des triazines sur le photosystème II. Afin d’identifier ces mécanismes, activés en absence de dommages cellulaires, une analyse transcriptomique au niveau du génome entier a été effectuée. Les trois triazines induisent des changements coordonnés et spécifiques dans l’expression des gènes. L’analyse fonctionnelle des gènes différentiellement exprimés et de leur promoteur révèle que les voies de signalisation liées à la fois aux hormones végétales, à la perception de faibles niveaux d’énergie, aux stress environnementaux ainsi qu’aux interactions biotiques sont impliquées dans la réponse aux faibles doses de triazines. Les triazines affectent, en particulier, l’expression de gènes connus pour être régulés par les cytokinines. De manière intéressante, cette famille d’hormones végétales montre des caractéristiques chimiques similaires à celles des triazines. Des études développementales utilisant différentes modalités d’exposition aux triazines et aux cytokinines ont alors été effectuées sur des génotypes sauvages et sur des mutants de la voie de signalisation des cytokinines. L’identification d’interactions spécifiques entre les triazines et les composants de la signalisation des cytokinines a alors mis en évidence des mécanismes potentiels de compétition et/ou d’antagonisme. La caractérisation de ces perturbations au niveau de la transduction du signal pourra permettre à terme d’évaluer l’efficacité des herbicides sur les cultures ainsi que l’impact des contaminations xénobiotiques sur les communautés végétales naturelles. Enfin, l’identification des interactions entre stress xénobiotique, biotique et abiotique approfondira les connaissances sur les effets croisés de la pollution chimique et des stress liés au changement climatique. / Herbicides are pollutants of high concern due to their environmental ubiquity resulting from extensive use in modern agriculture and persistence in soil and water. Degradation events on active molecules mediated by microorganisms, by plants and by natural processes give rise to a plethora of herbicide metabolites of unknown impact on ecosystems. Study of plant behavior toward such complex mixtures of xenobiotic structures is important to evaluate the effects of contaminations, especially in the context of residual pollution. In order to understand the mechanisms underlying the action of this diversity of compounds, the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana was confronted to variable doses of the widely-used triazine herbicide atrazine, and of two of its metabolites, desethylatrazine and hydroxyatrazine. Short exposure to varying concentrations of atrazine, desethylatrazine and hydroxyatrazine was found to affect early growth and development in various dose-dependent and distinct manners. These differential effects pointed out to the multiple involvement of non-canonical mechanisms, directly affecting respiration and root development. In order to identify these mechanisms, which are activated in the absence of major adverse physiological effects, a genome-wide transcriptomic analysis was carried out. All of the triazines under study induced coordinated and specific changes in gene expression. Functional analysis of differentially expressed genes and of their promoters revealed that signaling pathways related to plant hormones, low energy sensing, environmental stresses and biotic interactions were involved in low-dose triazine responses. In particular, triazines affected the expression of genes known to be regulated by cytokinins. Interestingly, this family of plant hormones shares similar chemical features with triazine compounds. Developmental studies on plants bearing mutations in cytokinin sensing and signaling pathways were then carried out under variable triazine exposures. The identification of specific interactions between triazine compounds and cytokinin-signaling components highlighted potential mechanisms of competition and/or antagonism. The characterization of such signal transduction modifications and perturbations will be useful to assess herbicide efficiency in crop systems and xenobiotic contamination impact on natural plant communities. Finally, the identification of crosstalk processes between xenobiotic, abiotic and biotic stress signaling gives novel insights into the interplay between chemical pollution and climate change stressors.

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