Efeitos ecotoxicológicos do glifosato e formulações em diferentes organismos

• Autor(a) principal: Rodrigues, Laís de Brito
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFG
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/6825
• topic: Glifosato; Roundup®; Glifosato AKB 480; Toxicidade aguda; Fitotoxicidade; Glyphosate; Roundup®; Glyphosate AKB 480; Acute toxicity; Phytotoxicity; FARMACOLOGIA::TOXICOLOGIA

Glyphosate-based herbicides are the most commonly used worldwide due to their effectiveness and they are relatively non-toxic to non-target species. Unlimited and uncontrolled use of such pesticides can lead to serious consequences in terms of human health and ecological balance. We evaluated the acute toxicity of active ingredient glyphosate (GLI) and two glyphosate-based formulations, Roundup Original (RUP) and Glyphosate AKB 480 (AKB) on different organisms: seeds of cucumber (Cucumis sativus), lettuce (Lactuca sativa) and tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum), microcrustacean Artemia salina and zebrafish (Danio rerio) early life stages. For germination endpoint, L. esculentum presented sensitivity (EC50 = 702.10 mg/L) for AKB and L. sativa for GLI exposure (EC50 = 612.30 mg/l) whereas the three substances induced significant toxic effect on root elongation of all tested species. GLI, RUP and AKB induced significant toxicity to A. salina and were classified as Category III according to Globally Harmonized Classification System (GHS) criteria. However, RUP (LC50-48h of 39.4 mg/L) was more toxic than GLI (LC50-48h of 65.24 mg/L) and AKB (LC50-48h of 104.20 mg/L). For embryo-larval toxicity test, RUP proved be more toxic than AKB for mortality endpoint (LC50-96h of 28.23 and 75.33 mg/L, respectively) and GLI (LC50 > 100 mg/L) while for hatching parameter, AKB (EC50-48h of 6.23 mg/L) was more toxic than RUP (EC50-48h of 8.29 mg/L) and GLI exposure did not affect the hatching process. We concluded that active ingredient (GLI), AKB and RUP glyphosate-based formulations are phytotoxic and induce toxic effects in non-target organisms like A. salina and zebrafish early life stage. In addition, our results shows the evaluation necessity of glyphosate-based formulations, once they present different toxic potentials on different organisms.