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Pencycuron is a non-systemic protective fungicide for controlling sheath blight of rice. However, information on the fate of pencycuron in rice plant is lacking. The degradation of pencycuron in waterlogged tropic rice field was investigated. Pencycuron was applied at recommended field dose (187.5 g a.i./ha) and double recommended dose to cropped plots for three consecutive years. Pencycuron was rapidly degraded in rice plant at all doses of pencycuron application with first order half-lives of 1.57–2.77 d. The study revealed that pencycuron is safe from the human and environmental contamination point of view.
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Pal, R., Chakrabarti, K., Chakraborty, A. et al. Dissipation of pencycuron in rice plant. J. Zheijang Univ.-Sci. B 6, 756–758 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02842434
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