Mutual Effect on Determination of Gibberellins and Glyphosate in Groundwater by Spectrophotometry

In the present study, a spectrophotometry method for the simultaneous determination of gibberellins (GA3) and glyphosate in groundwater was established and optimized. In addition, the mutual effect on simultaneous determination of GA3 and glyphosate was studied. Based on the experiment, good linearity (R-2>0.99) was obtained for GA3 in the range of 0 similar to 20 and 0 similar to 100 mu g and for glyphosate in the range of 0 similar to 8 and 5 similar to 15 mu g. The method's detection limit (MDL) of GA3 and glyphosate was 0.48 and 0.82 mu g, respectively; and the recovery rates of 15 to 150 mu g GA3 and 3 to 10 mu g glyphosate in all samples at a spiked level were 71.3%+/- 1.9% and 98.4%+/- 8.1%, respectively. No obvious influence of glyphosate (0 similar to 100 mg. L-1) on the recovery rates of GA3 was observed, but the presence of glyphosate could cause slight determination precision decrease of GA3. Meanwhile, adding 2 mg . L-1 GA3 can increase the recovery rate of glyphosate.