Abstract
Weed resistance to glyphosate has been a driving force behind the increased use of alternative herbicides in agriculture. Recently, dicamba-tolerant recombinant plants were introduced to the market, which may result in residues of this agrochemical contaminating environmental waters. Given that restrictions on the use of dicamba have consequently been established by regulatory agencies, it is therefore also desirable to conduct extensive controls on dicamba residues. Immunoassays are currently the most powerful bioanalytical technology for the rapid monitoring of chemical residues and contaminants. In the present study, a novel hapten was designed maintaining unaltered all the antigenic moieties of the target molecule, and this was used to generate high-affinity monoclonal antibodies against dicamba for the first time. Additionally, a collection of haptens with different linker composition or linker tethering site was synthesized and conjugated to proteins. Using these novel immunoreagents, a direct competitive enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay with a limit of detection for dicamba of 0.24 ng/mL was developed and validated. Analysis of water samples from different origins afforded recovery values between 90 % and 120 %, and coefficients of variation below 20 % were obtained. These results indicate that the developed immunochemical assay is suitable for the rapid determination of dicamba residues in environmental water samples.
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