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Analytical approaches to study group interactions of azole pesticides with important biological active compounds
Kovač, Ishak ; Jaklová Dytrtová, Jana (advisor) ; Száková, Jiřina (referee) ; Navrátil, Tomáš (referee)
This dissertation presents a developed capillary electrophoresis method for analysing residues of triazole fungicides (TAF) from real samples ("Sweet cherry" tomato - Solanum lycopersicum L) and shows its potential application in environmental analysis. The developed method was validated in-house and characterised by a relatively short analysis time and low cost with sufficient LOD and LOQ. As an additional part of this dissertation, which rose from the tomato plants' treatment with TAF, we studied the impact of triazole fungicides on plant development and their impact on biologically active compounds. Determination of TAF residues from tomato peel carried out with capillary electrophoresis. Capillary electrophoresis is a versatile technique with minute amounts of sample required, with high efficiency in separating small molecules, such as selected TAF. The developed method, cyclodextrin-modified micellar electrokinetic chromatography, accomplished a baseline separation of the TAF mixture from tomato peel. The optimal conditions for separation were in the background electrolyte comprised of phosphoric acid and Tris (100 mM concentration, respectively), 20% v/v methanol, with apparent p[H+ ] 4.8. The constituents of the mixed micellar pseudo-stationary phase were ionic detergent sodium dodecyl...
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Antioxidant system of tomato plants exposed to triazole fungicides
Žufić, Antoniana ; Hýsková, Veronika (advisor) ; Jaklová Dytrtová, Jana (referee)
Fungal pathogens cause severe crop losses worldwide. Recently, however, chemical fungicides have become dangerous environmental contaminants affecting non-target organisms. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of triazole fungicides in the form of penconazole (P), tebuconazole (T) or their combination (PT) on tomato plants Solanum lycopersicum L. cv. Cherrola. No significant change in the activity of a key enzyme of the ascorbate-glutathione cycle, ascorbate peroxidase and activity of cytosolic peroxides, was detected in leaves, roots or fruits at the intervals studied, i.e. after two and five weekly treatments of P, T or PT, either as a foliar or a soil application. While slightly increased guaiacol peroxidase activity was found in roots due to T spraying and PT combination, the activity of this enzyme was reduced in leaves similar to catalase. The greatest changes in leaf antioxidant capacity correlated with increased phenolic and flavonoid content were observed after five treatments of penconazole (P) as a soil application both P alone and in combination as PT. The studied triazoles significantly affected the abundance of isoforms of superoxide dismutase and partially total peroxides in leaves, roots and fruits and of acorbate peroxidase in leaves. The highest content of HSP70 was found in...
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Utilization of complexation of tebuconazole with Cu(II) ions for its voltammetric detection
Dostálková, Lucie ; Fischer, Jan (advisor) ; Křížek, Tomáš (referee)
Tebuconazole is a triazole fungicide used in agriculture that can be present in the environment and have a negative effect on various organisms. Therefore, the electrochemical properties of tebuconazole and its complexation with Cu(II) ions on a boron doped diamond electrode were studied for its possible indirect detection in the presence of these ions. For the determination of Cu(II) ions, conditions in the concentration range 0.1-10 mol l-1 were optimized by differential pulse voltammetry in a 0.01 mol l-1 HNO3 environment on anodically oxidized BDDE, the limit of quantitation was 0.087 µmol l-1 . After optimization of the conditions, the indirect determination of tebuconazole was tested. The signal of free Cu(II) ions after the addition of tebuconazole was monitored. A decrease in this signal was observed and a linear calibration dependence could be measured for a decrease in the signal of 10 µmol l-1 Cu(NO3)2 in the concentration range of 2-10 µmol l-1 tebuconazole and for 1 µmol l-1 Cu(NO3)2 in the concentration range of 2-10 µmol l-1 and 10-100 µmol l-1 tebuconazole. Complexation of tebuconazole with Cu2+ was shown to occur almost instantaneously. Tebuconazole itself gives an anodic peak at a potential of +1550 mV in aqueous medium of 0.01 mol l-1 HNO3. Using differential pulse voltammetry,...
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Study of tebuconazole complexes with metal ionts
Norková, Renáta ; Jaklová Dytrtová, Jana (advisor) ; Vyskočil, Vlastimil (referee)
Tebuconazole belongs to widely utilized plant fungicides, mostly in vineyards. Its traces are present in plant tissues, wine as well as in soil. The aim of the study was to determine stoichiometries and stabilities of metal (Cu, Zn, Cd, Ca and Ag) complexes with tebuconazole (1) by means of electrospray ionization mass spectrommetry (ESI-MS). It was found that the complexes of tebuconazole with copper ions are particularly stable ([Cu(1)]+ has appearance energy 224 kJ·mol-1 , corresponding with the dissociation of the water molecule from the tebuconazole molecule), while the stability of another tebuconazole complexes is lower, about 150 kJ·mol-1 . In real environmental samples, the detection of 1 itself is hampered by its spreading into various species. The method involved here is based upon a hyphenation of electrochemistry (amperometry) and electrospray-ionization mass spectrometry (ESI-MS). It uses the fact that Cu creates very stable complexes with 1. We demonstrate that at appropriate potentials (at higher than 500 mV) Cu cations can be generated in an electrochemical cell and subsequently form complexes with 1 present in the sample. The resulting complex [Cu(1)]+ is detected with ESI-MS. The intensity of detected complexes depends on the concentration of 1 and the oxidation level of the...
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