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Constructing slow-release formulations of metribuzin based on degradable poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) Anatoly Nikolayevich Boyandin, Natalia Olegovna Zhila, Evgeniy Gennadievich Kiselev, and Tatiana Volova J. Agric. Food Chem., Just Accepted Manuscript • DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.5b05896 • Publication Date (Web): 29 Jun 2016 Downloaded from http://pubs.acs.org on June 29, 2016

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Title: CONSTRUCTING SLOW-RELEASE FORMULATIONS OF METRIBUZIN

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BASED ON DEGRADABLE POLY(3-HYDROXYBUTYRATE)

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Authorship: Anatoly Nikolayevich Boyandin*, Natalia Olegovna Zhila, Evgeniy

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Gennadievich Kiselev, Tatiana Grigorievna Volova

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Institute of Biophysics of Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, 50/50

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Akademgorodok, Krasnoyarsk 660036, Russia

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*Corresponding author. E-mail: [email protected]

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Keywords: metribuzin, degradable poly(3-hydroxybutyrate), controlled release, release

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kinetics, herbicide

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ABSTRACT

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Experimental formulations of herbicide metribuzin embedded in matrices of

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degradable natural polymer poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) (P3HB) and its composites with

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polyethylene glycol (PEG), polycaprolactone (PCL), and wood powder have been prepared

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in the form of pressed pellets containing 75% of polymeric basis (pure P3HB or its

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composite with a second component at a ratio of 7:3) and 25% of metribuzin. Incubation of

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formulations in soil laboratory systems led to the degradation of the matrix and herbicide

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release. The most active release of metribuzin (about 60% of the embedded herbicide over

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35 days) was detected for the P3HB/PEG carrier as compared with P3HB, P3HB/wood and

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P3HB/PCL forms (30-40%). Thus, the study shows that herbicide release can be controlled

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by the matrix formulation. Metribuzin formulations exerted a significant herbicidal effect

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on the plant Agrostis stolonifera, used as a weed plant model. Application of these long-

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term formulations will make it possible to reduce environmental release of chemicals,

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which will restrict the rate of their accumulation in trophic chains of ecosystems and abate

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their adverse effects on the biosphere.

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INTRODUCTION

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Intensive agricultural technologies require implementation of a wide variety of

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chemicals for pest and weed control. However, only a minor part of pesticides applied and

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released into the environment reaches their target. The major part of those chemicals

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accumulates in the environment and biota, and pollutes soil and water.1 An actual area of

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focus is development of ecologically safe new-generation preparations with targeted and

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controlled agent release using special coating and/or matrices (carriers) from biodegradable

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materials. The key aspect of production of this type of preparations is availability of a

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suitable material possessing special properties including environmental safety, chemical

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compatibility with agricultural preparations, long-term storage quality and controlled

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degradability without forming toxic products.

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There were synthetic and natural biodegradable materials among materials studied

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for construction of new-generation agricultural preparations. Aside from individual

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polymers, composites and mixtures including polymers with different filling materials,

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among which are carboxymethylcellulose and sodium alginate with bentonite and

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anthracite,2-4 carboxylmethylcellulose with clay,5 alginate with bentonite and activated

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carbon,6 composite of bentonite or nanobentonite with polymers of acrylic acid and

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acrylamide7, ethylcellulose and lignin,8 and others have been studied for embedding.

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Studying composite matrices for preparation embedding is performed for the agent release

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kinetics regulation, and also for involvement of more available materials.

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Metribuzin is one of the modern herbicides which is intensively studied and used at

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the present time. This systemic-action wide-range herbicide eliminates broad-leaved and

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poaceous weeds by repressing photosynthesis; it is effective against different pests, such as

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ragweed, foxtail, shepherd's purse, crabgrass, wild oats, barnyardgrass, amaranth,

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cornflower, pigweed, daisy, wild mustard, sow thistle, veronica, cocklebur, etc. Metribuzin

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is easily absorbed by roots and sprouts. Degradation of the preparation can last from 1 to 3

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months depending on soil structure and climatic conditions.9 Decrease of metribuzin

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activity is usually caused by its leaching to lower horizons of soil profile.7 Because of these

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reasons, metribuzin is appropriate herbicide for using in controlled delivery systems. By

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now, it was described developing slow release metribuzin formulations with different

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natural and synthetic materials,2,7,10-18 which should enable slow release of an active

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component, be fully biodegrade in the environment and have reasonable price.

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Polymers of microbiological origin – polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) – are of

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particular importance among biodegradable materials. These polymers are potentially

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productive for application as a degradable biopacking material and also in specific areas

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including medicine and pharmacology, agriculture.19,20 Long-term biodegradability of PHA

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and possibility of obtaining polymeric products from them in variable physical states

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(powders, solutions, melts) open a prospect of constructing long-term preparations on their

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basis suitable for soil and pre-emergence application. Works, focused on creation of such

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matrices on the basis of PHA are on the conceptual stage. By this moment, PHA were used

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for embedding of fungicides Sumilex and Ronilan,21 insecticide malathion;22 herbicides

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atrazine and ametryn.23,24 Works of our team have studied PHA have as platforms for

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embedding insecticides α-hexochlorocyclohexane and lindane,25,26 herbicide Zellek Super

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(haloxyfop-P-methyl).27

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It is impossible not to note that increase of implementation of PHA polymers at the

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present time is still lowered by their high price. Searching for means of cost reduction of

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PHA based products is actual for PHA technical implementation.19,20 Not only pure PHA

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but also mixture of these polymers with more obtainable materials can be a way of

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embedding agricultural preparations. Filling a polymer matrix with variable materials also

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gives access to regulation of the polymeric carrier degradation and release of the agent into

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the environment.

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The purpose of this study was constructing and research of sustained release

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formulations of herbicide metribuzin with application of mixtures of poly(3-

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hydroxybutyrate), the best-known polymer of PHA class, with synthetic and natural

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materials.

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MATERIALS AND METHODS

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Materials. Poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) (P3HB) (the weight average molecular weight

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Mw 920 kDa; polydispersity 2.52) was synthesized according to previously described

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technology.28 Poly-ε-caprolactone (PCL) with the number average molecular weight Mn 80

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kDa in the form of granules and also poly(ethylene glycol) with Mw 300 kDa in the form of

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powder were produced by Aldrich (USA). Wood powder was obtained by birch wood

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disintegrating with the MD 250-85 wood-carving working bench (Stanko-Premier, Russia),

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followed by drying at 60°C for 120 h until it reached its constant weight and particle

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fraction selecting by means of screen sizing with 0.5 mm mesh. Metribuzin was purchased

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from “Ecolan” (Moscow, Russia). Empirical formula: C8H14N4OS. Molecular mass: 214.3.

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IUPAC name: 4-amino-6-tert-butyl-4,5-dihydro-3-methylthio-1,2,4-triazin-5-one. CAS

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name:

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substance: colorless needles. Melting point of the active material: 126.2ºС.

4-amino-6-(1,1-dimethylethyl)-3-(methylthio)-1,2,4-triazin-5(4H)-one.

Pure

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Pure metribuzin was used as positive control 1. A commercial metribuzin

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formulation, Sencor Ultra, containing 600 g/kg of the active ingredient was purchased from

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Bayer CropScience AG (Monheim am Rhein, Germany), and used as positive control 2.

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Preparation of P3HB/filling material mixtures. For obtaining P3HB/filling

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material mixtures, polymers (P3HB and PCL) were ground using a ZM 200 mill (Retsch,

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Germany), and particle fractions under size of 1 mm were selected. Particle size distribution

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of the obtained powder was determined with an analytical sieving machine AS 200 control

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(Retsch, Germany): particle fraction of size under 0.50 mm totaled 60%; of size from 0.50

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to 1.00 mm – 40%. Pellets, 13 mm in diameter, containing 150 mg of pure P3HB or its

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mixtures with birch sawdust, powder of PCL or PEG in the ratio of 7:3 (105 mg of P3HB

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and 45 mg of the second component) were obtained by cold pressing powdered components

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using a Carver Auto Pellet 3887 press (Carver, U.S.); pressing force was 14 000 F.

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Metribuzin embedding in the P3HB/filling material mixture and obtaining the

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formulations. Pure P3HB powder and its mixtures with birch sawdust, PCL and PEG

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powder at a source ratio of 7:3 (i.e. 70% of P3HB and 30% of the second component) were

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used for construction of pellets loaded with 25% metribuzin. Specimens obtained by

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mixing of powders (150 mg of pure P3HB or 105 mg of P3HB and 45 mg of the second

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component) with 50 mg of metribuzin were cold-pressed by the same way as it was

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described in the previous section.

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Metribuzin analysis. Metribuzin was detected by gas chromatography using the

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gas chromatograph 7890/5975C (Agilent Technologies, U.S.) equipped with a mass

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spectrometer as it was described earlier.29

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Kinetics of metribuzin release from the polymeric samples was studied in laboratory

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systems. The specimens were sterilized using the Sterrad NX system (Johnson & Johnson,

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U.S.). In water experiments, the specimens were put into sterile conical flasks of 500 ml

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volume filled with 100 ml of sterile distilled water and incubated in an Innova 44 (New

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Brunswick, USA) shaker at 30°C and 150 rpm. After specified intervals, a part of samples

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was ejected; water samples from flasks were chosen and analyzed for metribuzin.

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Metribuzin was extracted with chloroform three times to determine its concentration. The

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chloroform extracts were passed through sodium sulfate. Chloroform was removed in a

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rotary vacuum evaporator.

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For metribuzin concentration analysis in soil, 50 g of dry soil were overflown by

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200 ml of chloroform and left for 24 h. Then the soil was glass-filtered using a vacuum

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pump, rinsing it with chloroform, repeating the operation 3 times. United obtained extracts

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were concentrated on a rotary evaporator, then quantitatively transferred into smaller flasks

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using chloroform. Chloroform was removed in the rotary vacuum evaporator.

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The amount of metribuzin released was determined as percentage of the metribuzin encapsulated in the polymer matrix. Mathematical analysis of release kinetics of metribuzin was performed using the Korsmeyer – Peppas model:29-31

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Mt / M∞= Ktn,

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where Mt and M∞ are the amounts of the metribuzin which were released at time t

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and over a very long time, respectively, K is a kinetic constant and n is the diffusional

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exponent. M∞ generally corresponds to the initial loading. For our case (cylindrical pellets)

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n ≥ 0.45 diffusion mechanism conforms to Fick’s law, 0.45 < n 0.89 to Super Case II transport

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mechanisms. For calculating the exponent n only the part of the release curve with

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Mt/M∞