Abstract:The application of super absorbent polymers (SAP) to agriculture is one of the effective measures to solve the problems of drought resisting and water retention in arid-semiarid region and the use of agrochemicals is an indispensable part as well. So it is obviously important to study and clarify environmental behavior of agricultural chemicals when coexisted with SAP. In this study, explored the release profile of Carbendazim loaded by hydrogel (H-MBC) in distilled water. Bound residue and extractable residue of H-MBC and Carbendazim (MBC) in soil were investigated by 14C-isotope tracing, and the uptake of 14C labeled H-MBC and 14C-MBC by Oil spiced cabbage(Brassica chinensis L.)was also studied. The results showed as follows: 14C-Carbendaizm derived from 14C labeled H-MBC was slowly released in water, and the release longevity could be prolonged to more than 360 h. The extractable residue (ER) for both 14C labeled H-MBC and 14C-MBC decreased with time, reaching 10.70% and 6.95% of applied amount respectively after 34 days of incubation. The bound residue (BR) of 14C labeled H-MBC and 14C-MBC in soil increased first then decreased after a certain time, and the inflection point occurred after 28 days and 14 days respectively. Around 35.71% ~52.51% of applied H-MBC and 23.87% ~ 43.26% of MBC formed BR. The uptake of both 14C labeled H-MBC and 14C-MBC by Oil spiced cabbage was limited, and about 0.08%~1.64% of the applied amount, indicating that neither H-MBC nor MBC would lead to high residue in plant. The disappeared proportions (14C labeled carbon dioxide and/or 14C-labeled methanoic acid) constitute 30.17%~52.66% of applied 14C-labeled H-MBC, 32.26%~65.75% of 14C-MBC, demonstrating that the encapsulation of hydrogel decreased the volatilization and mineralization of carbendazim derived from H-MBC. The results were helpful to understand the environmental behavior and fate of H-MBC in soil-plant system and paved a way for safely-rational use of SAP and agrochemicals, as well as their environment-friendly and development tendency.