Hapten syntheses and antibody generation for a new herbicide, metamifop.

To develop a competitive indirect enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for metamifop, a new aryloxyphenoxypropionic acid herbicide, three structurally related haptens were synthesized. Hapten conjugates to keyhole limpet hemocyanin and bovine serum albumin were used as immunogens and plate-coating antigens, respectively. Various sets of polyclonal antibodies from rabbits and the coating antigens were screened for the assay in simple homologous and heterologous ELISA formats.