Parker C E, Geeson A V, Games D E, Ramsey E D, Abusteit E O, Corbin F T, Tomer K B
Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709.
J Chromatogr. 1988 Apr 22;438(2):359-67. doi: 10.1016/s0021-9673(00)90267-x.
A thermospray liquid chromatographic-mass spectrometric (TSP LC-MS) method has been developed for the analysis of the herbicide metribuzin and its three major metabolites in plant tissue. Metribuzin and its metabolites exhibited widely varying sensitivities in positive-ion TSP, with metribuzin being the most sensitive and deaminated diketo metribuzin being the least sensitive. All four compounds of interest were detected in an extract of a soybean plant which had been treated with metribuzin.