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Zhao Y, Ye F, Fu Y. Herbicide Safeners: From Molecular Structure Design to Safener Activity. JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD CHEMISTRY 2024; 72:2451-2466. [PMID: 38276871 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.3c08923] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2024]
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Herbicide safeners, highly effective antidotes, find widespread application in fields for alleviating the phytotoxicity of herbicides to crops. Designing new herbicide safeners remains a notable issue in pesticide research. This review focuses on discussing and summarizing the structure-activity relationships, molecular structures, physicochemical properties, and molecular docking of herbicide safeners in order to explore how different structures affect the safener activities of target compounds. It also provides insights into the application prospects of computer-aided drug design for designing and synthesizing new safeners in the future.
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- Yaning Zhao
- Department of Chemistry, College of Arts and Sciences, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, China
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Arts and Sciences, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, China
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Arts and Sciences, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, China
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Jia L, Jin XY, Zhao LX, Fu Y, Ye F. Research Progress in the Design and Synthesis of Herbicide Safeners: A Review. JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD CHEMISTRY 2022; 70:5499-5515. [PMID: 35473317 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.2c01565] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Detoxification plays an important role in herbicide action. Herbicide safeners selectively protect crops from herbicide injury without reducing the herbicidal efficiency against the target weeds. With the large-scale use of herbicides, herbicide safeners have been widely used in sorghum, wheat, rice, corn, and other crops. In recent years, an increasing number of unexpected new herbicide safeners have been designed. The varieties, structural characteristics, uses, and synthetic routes of commercial herbicide safeners are reviewed in this paper. The design ideas and structural characteristics of novel herbicide safeners are summarized, which provide a basis for the design of bioactive molecules as new herbicide safeners in the future.
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- Ling Jia
- Department of Chemistry, College of Arts and Sciences, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, Heilongjiang 150030, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Arts and Sciences, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, Heilongjiang 150030, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Arts and Sciences, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, Heilongjiang 150030, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Arts and Sciences, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, Heilongjiang 150030, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Arts and Sciences, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, Heilongjiang 150030, People's Republic of China
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Ye F, Zhai Y, Guo KL, Liu YX, Li N, Gao S, Zhao LX, Fu Y. Safeners Improve Maize Tolerance under Herbicide Toxicity Stress by Increasing the Activity of Enzymes in Vivo. JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD CHEMISTRY 2019; 67:11568-11576. [PMID: 31584809 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.9b03587] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Tribenuron-methyl (TM), as one of the sulfonylurea (SU) herbicides, has been widely and effectively applied for many kinds of plants. SUs inhibit plant growth by restraining the biosynthetic pathway of branched-chain amino acids (BCAAs) catalyzed by acetolactate synthase (ALS). Safeners are agrochemicals that protect crops from herbicide injuries. To improve the crop tolerance under TM toxicity stress, this paper evaluated the protective effect of N-tosyloxazolidine-3-carboxamide. It turned out that most of the tested compounds showed significant protection against TM via enhancing the glutathione (GSH) content and glutathione S-transferase (GST) activity. Among all of the tested compounds, compound 16 exhibited more excellent protection than the contrast safener R-28725 and other target compounds. A positive correlation between the growth level, endogenous GSH content, and GST activity was observed in this research. The GST kinetic parameter Vmax of the maize was increased by 29.6% after treatment with compound 16, while Km was decreased by 51.9% compared to the untreated control. The molecular docking model indicated that compound 16 could compete with TM in the active site of ALS, which could interpret the protective effects of safeners. The present work demonstrated that N-tosyloxazolidine-3-carboxamide derivatives could be considered as potential candidates for developing new safeners in the future.
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- Fei Ye
- Department of Applied Chemistry, College of Science , Northeast Agricultural University , Harbin , Heilongjiang 150030 , People's Republic of China
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, College of Science , Northeast Agricultural University , Harbin , Heilongjiang 150030 , People's Republic of China
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, College of Science , Northeast Agricultural University , Harbin , Heilongjiang 150030 , People's Republic of China
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, College of Science , Northeast Agricultural University , Harbin , Heilongjiang 150030 , People's Republic of China
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, College of Science , Northeast Agricultural University , Harbin , Heilongjiang 150030 , People's Republic of China
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, College of Science , Northeast Agricultural University , Harbin , Heilongjiang 150030 , People's Republic of China
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, College of Science , Northeast Agricultural University , Harbin , Heilongjiang 150030 , People's Republic of China
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, College of Science , Northeast Agricultural University , Harbin , Heilongjiang 150030 , People's Republic of China
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Protective Responses Induced by Chiral 3-Dichloroacetyl Oxazolidine Safeners in Maize ( Zea mays L.) and the Detoxification Mechanism. Molecules 2019; 24:molecules24173060. [PMID: 31443550 PMCID: PMC6749458 DOI: 10.3390/molecules24173060] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2019] [Revised: 08/20/2019] [Accepted: 08/21/2019] [Indexed: 01/16/2023] Open
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Herbicide safeners selectively protect crops from herbicide injury while maintaining the herbicidal effect on the target weed. To some extent, the detoxification of herbicides is related to the effect of herbicide safeners on the level and activity of herbicide target enzymes. In this work, the expression of the detoxifying enzyme glutathione S-transferase (GST) and antioxidant enzyme activities in maize seedlings were studied in the presence of three potential herbicide safeners: 3-dichloroacetyl oxazolidine and its two optical isomers. Further, the protective effect of chiral herbicide safeners on detoxifying chlorsulfuron in maize was evaluated. All safeners increased the expression levels of herbicide detoxifying enzymes, including GST, catalase (CAT), and peroxidase (POD) to reduce sulfonylurea herbicide phytotoxicity in maize seedlings. Our results indicate that the R-isomer of 3-(dichloroacetyl)-2,2,5-trimethyl-1,3-oxazolidine can induce glutathione (GSH) production, GST activity, and the ability of GST to react with the substrate 1-chloro-2,4-dinitrobenzene (CDNB) in maize, meaning that the R-isomer can protect maize from damage by chlorsulfuron. Information about antioxidative enzyme activity was obtained to determine the role of chiral safeners in overcoming the oxidative stress in maize attributed to herbicides. The interaction of safeners and active target sites of acetolactate synthase (ALS) was demonstrated by molecular docking modeling, which indicated that both isomers could form a good interaction with ALS. Our findings suggest that the detoxification mechanism of chiral safeners might involve the induction of the activity of herbicide detoxifying enzymes as well as the completion of the target active site between the safener and chlorsulfuron.
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Kasza P, Trybula ME, Baradziej K, Kepczynski M, Szafrański PW, Cegła MT. Fluorescent triazolyl spirooxazolidines: Synthesis and NMR stereochemical studies. J Mol Struct 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molstruc.2019.01.052] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Design, Synthesis, Safener Activity, and Molecular Docking of Novel
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‐Substituted Thiazide/Thiazole Derivatives. J Heterocycl Chem 2018. [DOI: 10.1002/jhet.3393] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Ye F, Wang C, Ma P, Zhao LX, Gao S, Fu Y. Synthesis, Crystal Structure and Biological Activity of NovelN-substituted Diazabicyclo Derivatives. J Heterocycl Chem 2017. [DOI: 10.1002/jhet.3057] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Fei Ye
- Department of Applied Chemistry, College of Science; Northeast Agricultural University; Harbin 150030 People's Republic of China
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, College of Science; Northeast Agricultural University; Harbin 150030 People's Republic of China
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, College of Science; Northeast Agricultural University; Harbin 150030 People's Republic of China
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, College of Science; Northeast Agricultural University; Harbin 150030 People's Republic of China
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, College of Science; Northeast Agricultural University; Harbin 150030 People's Republic of China
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, College of Science; Northeast Agricultural University; Harbin 150030 People's Republic of China
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Fu Y, Wang JY, Zhang D, Chen YF, Gao S, Zhao LX, Ye F. Solvent-Free Synthesis and Safener Activity of Sulfonylurea Benzothiazolines. Molecules 2017; 22:molecules22101601. [PMID: 28937640 PMCID: PMC6151413 DOI: 10.3390/molecules22101601] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/19/2017] [Revised: 09/21/2017] [Accepted: 09/21/2017] [Indexed: 12/05/2022] Open
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A series of novel sulfonylurea benzothiazolines was designed by splicing active groups and bioisosterism. A solvent-free synthetic route was developed for the sulfonylurea benzothiazoline derivatives via the cyclization and carbamylation. All compounds were characterized by IR, 1H-NMR, 13C-NMR, HRMS. The biological activity tests indicated the compounds could protect maize against the injury caused by chlorsulfuron to some extent. The molecular docking result showed that the new compound competed with chlorsulfuron to bind with the herbicide target enzyme active site to attain detoxification.
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- Ying Fu
- Department of Applied Chemistry, College of Science, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, China.
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, College of Science, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, China.
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, College of Science, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, China.
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, College of Science, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, China.
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, College of Science, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, China.
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, College of Science, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, China.
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, College of Science, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, China.
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