Sweet dicamba: a carbohydrate pro-herbicide strategy
Dicamba, although a potent and useful herbicide in weed management, is notorious for its off-target movement due to volatility. Here, we describe carbohydrate esters of dicamba as an unexplored pro-herbicide approach that addresses the volatility of dicamba, while maintaining its herbicidal qualities. Varying the carbohydrate and dicamba attachment point led to changes in potency and hydrolysis, potentially allowing for reactivity tuning of molecules for future weed management practices.
Authors
- Joshua S. Mylne (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4957-6388)
- Michael Wallace (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1408-7234)
- Kalia Bernath-Levin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4470-2982)
- Keith A. Stubbs (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6899-402X)
- Mark T. Waters (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5657-9005)
- Kevin Deane (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8368-9066)
- Joel Haywood (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1576-9704)
Institutions
- The University of Western Australia (AU)
- Curtin University (AU)
- ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology (AU)
Publication Details
- Journal
- RSC Chemical Biology
- Published
- 2025-01-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1039/d5cb00208g
- Primary Topic
- Microbial Metabolites in Food Biotechnology
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00