Assessment of ozone effects on local rice cultivar by portable ozone fumigation system in Hanoi, Vietnam.
This study examined the effects of troposphere ozone (O3) on rice by developing a portable ozone fumigation system and applied to the field in Hanoi, Vietnam. The system was nearly identical to the open top chamber but designed to easily and cheaply assess the O3 sensitivity of local agricultural crops in the actual field. The rice (Oryza sativa L.) was exposed to ozone during the flowering stage at peri-urban experimental site of Hanoi. The fumigation protocols covered five different levels, namely; non-filtered air (ambient) as the control treatment, 32, 62, 85 and 113 ppb in 7-h mean. It was found that observed impacts corresponded well to similar open-top chamber studies in other Asian countries. The methodology and the system left a large room for improvement and called for very careful interpretation and pre-conditions (e.g. low ambient O3 concentration). However, the portable O3 exposure in the field might open a door to the less developed countries to implement the phytotoxic risk assessment of the local agricultural species.
Van
Dinh Thi Hai
DT
Environmental Engineering and Management, School of Environment, Resources and Development, Asian Institute of Technology, P.O. Box 4, Klong Luang, Pathumthani 12120, Thailand.
Ishii
Satoshi
S
Oanh
Nguyen Thi Kim
NT
D004784:Environmental Monitoring / Q000379:methods*; D005651:Fumigation / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards*; D012275:Oryza / Q000187:drug effects*; D010083:Oxidants, Photochemical / Q000633:toxicity; D010126:Ozone / Q000633:toxicity*; D014744:Vietnam
D010083:Oxidants, Photochemical; D010126:Ozone