Abstract: An antibody specific to trifluralin can be produced by first substituting a soluble, straight chain amino acid for a propyl group of .alpha.,.alpha., .alpha.-trifluoro-2,6-dinitro-N-N-dipropyl-p-toluidine. The trifluoro group at the 4 position, the nitro group at the 2 position and the other nitro group at the 6 position are left exposed. Thereafter, the resulting substitution product is conjugated, at the site of the substituted amino acid group, with a lysine-rich protein. The resulting compound is then used as an antigen to evoke an immune response in a host animal or antibody producing cell line. The antibody produced against the antigen is then harvested and used in an assay such as a radioimmunoassay or enzyme linked immunosorbant assay (ELISA) to determine the presence and concentrations of trifluralin in agriculturally significant substances such as plant materials, soil and water or to otherwise test for trifluralin contamination of water, food and air.

Abstract: This invention relates to an antibody capable of both specifically detecting and quantifying minute quantities of the herbicide, atrazine, left in biological samples, such antibody having been made by the process of first substituting a soluble straight chain amino acid at the 4 or 6 position of 2-chloro-4(isopropylamino)-6-(ethylamino)-S-atrazine so as to leave the chlorine exposed at the 2 position along with one of the amino groups, then conjugating the resulting substitution product at the site of the amino acid group to a lysine-rich protein, using the mixed anhydride method in a strongly-basic aqueous solution, then inoculating a susceptible host with the antigen to evoke an immune response, and thereafter harvesting the antibody.

Abstract: Novel protein conjugates and radioiodinated derivatives of folic acid and salts, esters and amides useful in the radioimmunoassay (RIA) of body fluids to determine folic acid are disclosed.