{"id":1893,"date":"2009-10-01T14:21:46","date_gmt":"2009-10-01T18:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/?p=1893"},"modified":"2009-10-01T14:21:46","modified_gmt":"2009-10-01T18:21:46","slug":"plant-hormone-helps-metabolize-pesticides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/2009\/10\/01\/plant-hormone-helps-metabolize-pesticides\/","title":{"rendered":"Plant hormone helps metabolize pesticides"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"float: left;padding: 5px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.researchblogging.org\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.researchblogging.org\/public\/citation_icons\/rb2_large_gray.png\" alt=\"ResearchBlogging.org\" class=\"img-fluid\"><\/a><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">A <a href=\"http:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/stoken\/presspac\/presspac\/full\/10.1021\/jf901915a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new study<\/a> out in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry suggests a natural remedy to the negative effects of pesticides to plants.\u00a0 A group of plant hormones called <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brassinosteroid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">brassinosteroids <\/a>have been shown to reduce the toxicity of crops, if they\u2019re doused with it before pesticide application.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cab.zju.edu.cn\/IVS\/faculty\/jqyu1.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jing Quan Yu<\/a> of Zhejiang University and his colleagues treated cucumber plants with one type of brassinosteroid, then sprayed them with various pesticides. The hormone application sped up the plants\u2019 metabolism, causing them to rid themselves of the pesticides\u2019 toxins more quickly. One insecticide was found to reduce the plants\u2019 photosynthetic rate, so application of this hormone could contribute to faster growth than yielded by the application of pesticides alone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">And, the hormone appears to be environmentally friendly. As the authors write:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">The results suggest that BRs may be promising, environmentally friendly, natural substances suitable for wide application to reduce the risks of human and environment exposure to pesticides.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"Z3988\" title=\"ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.jtitle=Journal+of+Agricultural+and+Food+Chemistry&amp;rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1021%2Fjf901915a&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fresearchblogging.org&amp;rft.atitle=Brassinosteroids+Promote+Metabolism+of+Pesticides+in+Cucumber&amp;rft.issn=0021-8561&amp;rft.date=2009&amp;rft.volume=57&amp;rft.issue=18&amp;rft.spage=8406&amp;rft.epage=8413&amp;rft.artnum=http%3A%2F%2Fpubs.acs.org%2Fdoi%2Fabs%2F10.1021%2Fjf901915a&amp;rft.au=Xia%2C+X.&amp;rft.au=Zhang%2C+Y.&amp;rft.au=Wu%2C+J.&amp;rft.au=Wang%2C+J.&amp;rft.au=Zhou%2C+Y.&amp;rft.au=Shi%2C+K.&amp;rft.au=Yu%2C+Y.&amp;rft.au=Yu%2C+J.&amp;rfe_dat=bpr3.included=1;bpr3.tags=Biology%2CHealth%2CEcology%2C+Public+Health%2C+Agriculture\">Xia, X., Zhang, Y., Wu, J., Wang, J., Zhou, Y., Shi, K., Yu, Y., &amp; Yu, J. (2009). Brassinosteroids Promote Metabolism of Pesticides in Cucumber <span style=\"font-style: italic\">Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 57<\/span> (18), 8406-8413 DOI: <a rev=\"review\" href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1021\/jf901915a\">10.1021\/jf901915a<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study out in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry suggests a natural remedy to the negative effects of pesticides to plants.\u00a0 A group of plant hormones called brassinosteroids have been shown to reduce the toxicity of crops, if they\u2019re doused with it before pesticide application. Jing Quan Yu of Zhejiang University and his colleagues treated cucumber plants&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,48],"tags":[110,357,358],"class_list":["post-1893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research","category-ecology-and-society","tag-agriculture","tag-brassinosteroids","tag-pesticides"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}