Residual Pattern of Chlorantraniliprole, Thiamethoxam, Flubendiamide and Deltamethrin in Tomato Fruit and Soil

• Published in: Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology 2023-12, Vol.111 (6), p.69-69, Article 69
• Main Authors: Akoijam, Romila, Ningombam, Arati, Beemrote, Aruna, Roy, S. S., Sonia, Chongtham, Devi, Ch. Premabati, Singh, A. Ratankumar, Singh, Telem Ratan, Singh, H. Nandakumar, Hanglem, Chinglemba, Singh, I. M.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Aquatic Pollution; Borers; Deltamethrin; Earth and Environmental Science; Ecotoxicology; Environment; Environmental Chemistry; Environmental Health; Fruits; Harvesting; High performance liquid chromatography; Insecticides; Insects; Liquid chromatography; Lycopersicon esculentum; Pests; Pollution; Residues; Soil Science & Conservation; Soils; Spraying; Thiamethoxam; Tomatoes; Waste Water Technology; Water Management; Water Pollution Control
• ISSN: 0007-4861; 1432-0800
• DOI: 10.1007/s00128-023-03799-1

Tomato, Lycopersicon esculentum L. is grown widely as an important day-to-day demand vegetable. The crop is attacked by various polyphagous insect pests like tomato fruit borer, stink bug, cabbage looper, flea beetle, aphids, whitefly, two-spotted spider mite, etc., and oligophagous insects like leaf-miner, five-spotted hawkmoth, etc. To combat the damage and yield loss, various chemical insecticides were sprayed on tomatoes under field conditions. The residual pattern of insecticides like chlorantraniliprole, thiamethoxam, flubendiamide, and deltamethrin residues was studied following applications of chlorantraniliprole 18.5% SC (Coragen) @ 30 g a.i./ha, thiamethoxam 25% WG (Actara) @ 50 g a.i./ha, flubendiamide 39.35 M/M SC (Fame) @ 48 g a.i./ha and deltamethrin 2.8% EC (Decis 100) @ 12.5 g a.i./ha using Reverse Phase High-Performance Liquid Chromatography (RP-HPLC). Fruit samples were collected at 0 (1 h after application), 1, 2, 3, 5, 7 days and at harvest time. All the residues of insecticides such as chlorantraniliprole (0.09 mg kg − 1 ), thiamethoxam (0.03 mg kg − 1 ), flubendiamide (0.02 mg kg − 1 ), and deltamethrin (0.01 mg kg − 1 ) were persisted up to 5th day. There were no residues found at harvest time. The residues of chlorantraniliprole and deltamethrin persisted up to 3rd day of spraying whereas the residues of flubendiamide and thiamethoxam were not detected on the same day in the soil.