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Gafni R, Nassar JA, Matzrafi M, Blank L, Eizenberg H. Unraveling the reasons for failure to control Amaranthus albus: insights into herbicide application at different growth stages, temperature effect, and herbicide resistance on a regional scale. PEST MANAGEMENT SCIENCE 2024. [PMID: 38809094 DOI: 10.1002/ps.8192] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/01/2024] [Revised: 04/16/2024] [Accepted: 05/11/2024] [Indexed: 05/30/2024]
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BACKGROUND This study investigates factors contributing Amaranthus albus control failure in processing tomato fields in northern Israel. The study region is characterized by a significant climate gradient from east to west, providing the opportunity to investigate the effect of critical elements of the agricultural environment, e.g., temperature. Eight populations were collected from commercial fields in this region. Post-emergence herbicide efficacy of metribuzin, a photosystem II inhibitor, and rimsulfuron, an acetolactate synthase (ALS) inhibitor, was assessed through dose-response analyses at various growth stages. Temperature effects on control efficacy and resistance mechanisms were also explored. RESULTS Standard metribuzin dose (X) was ineffective on A. albus plants with more than six true-leaves, whereas 2X dose proved effective. Rimsulfuron at 16X dose was ineffective on plants with more than four true-leaves. We report here the first case of target site resistance to ALS inhibitors in A. albus, due to point mutation in the ALS gene (Pro197 to Leu). Furthermore, our findings suggest potential involvement of CYT P450 enzymes in enhanced metabolizing of rimsulfuron. An overall decrease in dry weight was observed in response to both herbicides at 16/22 °C (P < 0.0001). Rimsulfuron was effective against only one population when applied at 28/34 °C. A possible fitness cost associated with target site-resistant biotypes was observed under low temperature conditions, leading to effective control. CONCLUSION This regional-scale study highlights the challenges faced by growers, emphasizes the need for adapting management practices to the local climatic conditions and lays the groundwork for implementing location-specific weed management strategies in commercial fields. © 2024 The Author(s). Pest Management Science published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Society of Chemical Industry.
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- Roni Gafni
- The Robert H. Smith Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel
- Department of Plant Pathology and Weed Research, Agricultural Research Organization (ARO)-Volcani Institute, Newe Ya'ar Research Center, Ramat Yishay, Israel
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- Department of Plant Pathology and Weed Research, Agricultural Research Organization (ARO)-Volcani Institute, Newe Ya'ar Research Center, Ramat Yishay, Israel
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- Department of Plant Pathology and Weed Research, Agricultural Research Organization (ARO)-Volcani Institute, Newe Ya'ar Research Center, Ramat Yishay, Israel
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- Department of Plant Pathology and Weed Research, ARO, Volcani Center, Rishon LeZion, Israel
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- Department of Plant Pathology and Weed Research, Agricultural Research Organization (ARO)-Volcani Institute, Newe Ya'ar Research Center, Ramat Yishay, Israel
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Milani A, Panozzo S, Grazia TM, Scarabel L. Development of a rapid detection assay for acetolactate synthase inhibitors resistance in three Amaranthus weed species through loop-mediated isothermal amplification. JOURNAL OF THE SCIENCE OF FOOD AND AGRICULTURE 2024. [PMID: 38358049 DOI: 10.1002/jsfa.13385] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2023] [Revised: 02/07/2024] [Accepted: 02/15/2024] [Indexed: 02/16/2024]
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BACKGROUND The early detection of herbicide resistance in weeds is a key factor to avoid herbicide waste and improve agriculture sustainability. The present study aimed to develop and validate an allele-specific loop-mediated isothermal amplification (AS-LAMP) assay for the quick on-site detection of the resistance-endowing point mutation Trp-574-Leu in the acetolactate synthase (ALS) gene in three widely diffused Amaranthus weed species: Amaranthus retroflexus, Amaranthus hybridus and Amaranthus tuberculatus. RESULTS The AS-LAMP protocol was developed on wild-type and ALS-mutant plants of the three species and revealed that the amplification approach with only the primer set specific for the mutant allele (574-Leu) was the most promising. The validation and estimation of the AS-LAMP performance evaluated by comparing the results with those of the molecular marker (cleaved amplified polymorphic sequences) indicated that, although the sensitivity and specificity were relatively high in all species (overall 100 and > 65%, respectively), precision was high for A. hybridus L. and A. retroflexus L. (75 and 79%, respectively), but quite low for A. tuberculatus (Moq.) J. D. Sauer (59%). The LAMP assay was also effective on crude genomic DNA extraction, allowing the quick detection of mutant plants in field situation (on site resistance detection). CONCLUSION The proposed AS-LAMP method has proven to be a promising technique for rapid detection of resistance as a result of Trp-574-Leu on the two monoecious weedy Amaranthus species but resulted less effective in the genetically variable dioecious species A. tuberculatus. © 2024 The Authors. Journal of The Science of Food and Agriculture published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Society of Chemical Industry.
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- Andrea Milani
- Institute for Sustainable Plant Protection (IPSP-CNR), Legnaro, Italy
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- Institute for Sustainable Plant Protection (IPSP-CNR), Legnaro, Italy
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- Institute for Sustainable Plant Protection (IPSP-CNR), Legnaro, Italy
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Glaser M, Essl F, Follak S. Austrian farmers perception of new weeds. PLANT-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTIONS (HOBOKEN, N.J.) 2024; 5:e10129. [PMID: 38323127 PMCID: PMC10840368 DOI: 10.1002/pei3.10129] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2023] [Revised: 10/24/2023] [Accepted: 11/07/2023] [Indexed: 02/08/2024]
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The composition of weed floras in Central European fields has shifted creating a novel management issue: new weeds, that is, species that are currently spreading and increasing in impact. In their role as primary decision makers on the ground, farmers' perception of these new weeds plays a pivotal role in collecting information on their occurrence and control. We conducted an online survey to determine if Austrian farmers recognized 15 selected new weed taxa (12 species and 3 genera) from their farm. The 181 surveyed farmers also estimated the required management effort for these species and elicited their current management practices. Additional questions were posed to understand farmers' general perception of changes in the weed flora. We used a generalized linear mixed model to estimate differences in management effort and identify new weeds that merit monitoring and management programs. Two weed genera (Fallopia spp. and Panicum spp.) showed significantly higher than average management effort. The most commonly used management measures were manual removal, herbicide use and crop rotation. A majority of farmers reported changes in the weed flora; over two thirds reported new species and over one third reported new weeds that were difficult to control. In summary, our results suggest that respondents were aware of the challenges posed by new weeds but required more information on management and prevention strategies.
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- Michael Glaser
- Division of BioInvasions, Global Change & Macroecology, Department of Botany and Biodiversity ResearchUniversity of ViennaViennaAustria
- Vienna Doctoral School of Ecology and EvolutionUniversity of ViennaViennaAustria
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- Division of BioInvasions, Global Change & Macroecology, Department of Botany and Biodiversity ResearchUniversity of ViennaViennaAustria
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- Institute for Sustainable Plant Production, Austrian Agency for Health and Food SafetyViennaAustria
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Koreki A, Michel S, Lebeaux C, Trouilh L, Délye C. Prevalence, spatial structure and evolution of resistance to acetolactate-synthase (ALS) inhibitors and 2,4-D in the major weed Papaver rhoeas (L.) assessed using a massive, country-wide sampling. PEST MANAGEMENT SCIENCE 2024; 80:637-647. [PMID: 37752099 DOI: 10.1002/ps.7791] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/29/2023] [Revised: 09/19/2023] [Accepted: 09/27/2023] [Indexed: 09/28/2023]
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BACKGROUND Corn poppy (Papaver rhoeas) is the most damaging broadleaf weed in France. Massively parallel amplicon sequencing was used to investigate the prevalence, mode of evolution and spread of resistance-endowing ALS alleles in 422 populations randomly sampled throughout poppy's range in France. Bioassays were used to detect resistance to the synthetic auxin 2,4-D in 43 of these populations. RESULTS A total of 21 100 plants were analysed and 24 mutant ALS alleles carrying an amino-acid substitution involved or potentially involved in resistance were identified. The vast majority (97.6%) of the substitutions occurred at codon Pro197, where all six possible single-nucleotide non-synonymous substitutions plus four double-nucleotide substitutions were identified. Changes observed in the enzymatic properties of the mutant ALS isoforms could not explain the differences in prevalence among the corresponding alleles. Sequence read analysis showed that mutant ALS alleles had multiple, independent evolutionary origins, and could have evolved several times independently within an area of a few kilometres. Finally, 2,4-D resistance was associated with mutant ALS alleles in individual plants in one third of the populations assayed. CONCLUSION The intricate geographical mosaic of mutant ALS alleles observed is the likely result of the combination of huge population sizes, multiple independent mutation events and human-mediated spread of resistance. Our work highlights the ability of poppy populations and individual plants to accumulate different ALS alleles and as yet unknown mechanisms conferring resistance to synthetic auxins. This does not bode well for the continued use of chemical herbicides to control poppy. © 2023 Society of Chemical Industry.
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- Plateforme GeT-Biopuces, TBI, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, INRAE, INSA, Genotoul, Toulouse, France
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Milani A, Panozzo S, Pinton S, Danielis RA, Sattin M, Scarabel L. Diversity and Spread of Acetolactate Synthase Allelic Variants at Position 574 Endowing Resistance in Amaranthus hybridus in Italy. PLANTS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2023; 12:332. [PMID: 36679045 PMCID: PMC9860533 DOI: 10.3390/plants12020332] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2022] [Revised: 12/27/2022] [Accepted: 12/29/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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Poor control of Amaranthus spp. with herbicides inhibiting acetolactate synthase (ALS) has been observed for several years in soybean fields in north-eastern Italy, but to date only a few ALS-resistant populations have been confirmed. An extensive sampling of putatively resistant Amaranthus accessions was completed in the Friuli Venezia Giulia region, across an arable land area of about 3000 km2. In total, 58 accessions were tested to confirm their resistance status, recognize the Amaranthus species, identify the mutant ALS alleles endowing the resistance and determine the efficacy of 3 pre-emergence herbicides. Most accessions resulted in cross-resistance to thifensulfuron-methyl and imazamox. Genomic DNA were extracted from single seeds with a newly developed protocol; an allele-specific PCR assay revealed the presence of the 574-leucine in 20 accessions, of the 574-methionine in 22, and of both alleles in 9 accessions. The two variants showed a different spatial distribution. All resistant populations were ascribed to A. hybridus. A. hybridus resistant to ALS herbicides is well-established in this Italian region and its resistance is due to two ALS mutant alleles. Metribuzin, clomazone and metobromuron can be used as alternative herbicides to be applied in pre-emergence and they should be integrated into the management strategies to limit the spread of resistance.
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- Andrea Milani
- Institute for Sustainable Plant Protection (IPSP-CNR), 35020 Legnaro, Italy
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- Institute for Sustainable Plant Protection (IPSP-CNR), 35020 Legnaro, Italy
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- Institute for Sustainable Plant Protection (IPSP-CNR), 35020 Legnaro, Italy
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- Regional Agency for Rural Development of Friuli Venezia Giulia (ERSA), 33050 Pozzuolo del Friuli, Italy
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- Institute for Sustainable Plant Protection (IPSP-CNR), 35020 Legnaro, Italy
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- Institute for Sustainable Plant Protection (IPSP-CNR), 35020 Legnaro, Italy
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Mykhalska LM, Schwartau VV. Identification of acetolactate synthase resistant Amaranthus retroflexus in Ukraine. REGULATORY MECHANISMS IN BIOSYSTEMS 2022. [DOI: 10.15421/022230] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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The problem of weed resistance to herbicides has become very important in the last decade and threatens to dramatically reduce the productivity and profitability of modern crop production. Herbicides – ALS inhibitors dominate among current herbicides and are used annually on large areas of sunflower, wheat, corn, soybean, and rapeseed. Also, in recent years, Clearfield seeds of sunflower, corn, canola, soybean and wheat have been sown in large areas. In recent years, there has been a sharp decrease in Amaranthus retroflexus L. control levels by imidazolinone class herbicides. Thus, the effects of herbicides with different modes of action on the development of A. retroflexus on sunflower after imidazolinone application were investigated in field research. In the conditions of the Cherkasy region of Ukraine, the biotype A. retroflexus was identified, which is resistant to the post-emergence application of herbicides - acetolactate synthase (ALS) inhibitors of the imidazolinone class – imazapyr and imazamox. Weed plants treated with imidazolinone derivatives in the maximum doses registered in Ukraine did not differ from untreated control plants. Also, in the conditions of field experiments, cross resistance of the weed biotype to herbicides – ALS inhibitors of the sulfonylurea class – foramsulfuron and iodosulfuron-methyl-sodium, thifensulfuron-methyl, tribenuron-methyl, nicosulfuron was established; and also, to the triazolinone derivative – thiencarbazone-methyl; to triazolpyrimidine derivatives – florasulam and flumetsulam. Multiple resistance of the A. retroflexus biotype to herbicides of the classes of glycine derivatives – glyphosate, phenoxycarboxylates – 2,4-D, benzoic acid – dicamba has not been established; compositions of dicamba with triketone – topramesone; diphenyl ethers – aclonifen; pyridine carboxylates – clopyralid, picloram and aminopyralid. It was shown for the first time that herbicide compositions with selected nutrients (ammonium pool) can increase the level of effectiveness of controlling resistant weed biotypes. Thus, the addition of ammonium sulfate increases the effectiveness of controlling ALS-resistant A. retroflexus with herbicides – a derivative of benzoic acid (dianate) and a derivative of benzoic acid with a 4-hydroxyphenylpyruvate dioxygenase (HPPD) inhibitor (stellar – dicamba + topramesone). Thus, the A. retroflexus biotype resistant to ALS-herbicides of the imidazolinone class was identified for the first time in Ukraine, which is cross-resistant to other ALS-inhibitors of the sulfonylureas, triazolinones, and triazolpyrimidine classes. Multiple resistance of A. retroflexus to herbicides of the classes of glycine derivatives – glyphosate; phenoxycarboxylates – 2,4-D; benzoic acid – dicamba, triketones – topramesone; diphenyl ethers – aclonifen; pyridine carboxylates – clopyralid, picloram and aminopyralid has not been established. The identification of a highly harmful weed species resistant to widely used herbicides – ALS inhibitors in the central part of the "grain belt" of Ukraine requires a significant revision of the principles of crop rotation formation and ways of controlling weeds in the country in order to maintain high levels of profitability and productivity of agrophytocenoses.
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Recent Discovery of Amaranthus palmeri S. Watson in Italy: Characterization of ALS-Resistant Populations and Sensitivity to Alternative Herbicides. SUSTAINABILITY 2021. [DOI: 10.3390/su13137003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Amaranthus palmeri S. Watson (Amaranthaceae Juss.) is a dioecious noxious weed, native to the Americas, which infests summer crops. It causes high crop losses, and rapidly evolves resistance to herbicides. In Europe, A. palmeri was recorded mostly as a casual alien, but in 2018 it was reported infesting a soybean field in Italy, and the next year two more populations were found in the same area. Experiments were conducted on these three populations to evaluate the resistance to ALS-inhibiting herbicides, to determine the main resistance mechanisms involved and assess the efficacy of alternative herbicides with different sites of action than ALS. The three populations were confirmed cross-resistant to ALS-inhibiting herbicides (thifensulfuron-methyl and imazamox). Gene sequencing identified a Trp to Leu substitution at position 574 of ALS gene in resistant plants, proving that the main resistance mechanism for the three populations is target-site related. The presence of other resistance mechanisms cannot be excluded. Metobromuron, metribuzin and glyphosate are still effective on these populations.
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Milani A, Lutz U, Galla G, Scarabel L, Weigel D, Sattin M. Population structure and evolution of resistance to acetolactate synthase (ALS)-inhibitors in Amaranthus tuberculatus in Italy. PEST MANAGEMENT SCIENCE 2021; 77:2971-2980. [PMID: 33631029 PMCID: PMC8251816 DOI: 10.1002/ps.6336] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/17/2020] [Revised: 02/12/2021] [Accepted: 02/25/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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BACKGROUND Before 2010, Amaranthus tuberculatus (Moq.) J. D. Sauer was barely known to farmers and stakeholders in Italy. Since then, several populations resistant to acetolactate synthase (ALS)-inhibiting herbicides have been collected. In most populations, a known target site resistance-endowing mutation was found, a Trp to Leu substitution at position 574 of the ALS gene, but it was unclear whether they had evolved resistance independently or not. The aims of the work were (i) to elucidate the population structure of Italian ALS-resistant A. tuberculatus populations, and (ii) to analyze the ALS haplotypes of the various populations to determine whether resistance arose multiple times independently. RESULTS In order to determine the population structure of eight A. tuberculatus populations, eight previously described microsatellite loci were used. Two ancestors were found: three populations derived from one, and five from the other. In the 4-kb ALS region of the genome, including the 2-kb coding region, 389 single nucleotide polymorphisms were found. In silico haplotype estimation was used to reconstruct the sequence of three distinct haplotypes carrying the Trp574Leu mutation. In addition, no mutation was found in 83% of plants of a single population. CONCLUSIONS (i) Resistance must have arisen independently at least three times; (ii) at least one population was already resistant to ALS inhibitors when introduced in Italy; (iii) a single haplotype with a Trp574Leu mutation was shared among six populations, probably because of broad seed dispersal; and (iv) one population likely evolved nontarget site ALS inhibitors resistance. © 2021 The Authors. Pest Management Science published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Society of Chemical Industry.
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- Andrea Milani
- Institute for Sustainable Plant Protection (IPSP‐CNR)LegnaroItaly
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- Max Planck Institute for Developmental BiologyTübingenGermany
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- Institute for Sustainable Plant Protection (IPSP‐CNR)LegnaroItaly
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- Max Planck Institute for Developmental BiologyTübingenGermany
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- Institute for Sustainable Plant Protection (IPSP‐CNR)LegnaroItaly
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Tranel PJ. Herbicide resistance in Amaranthus tuberculatus †. PEST MANAGEMENT SCIENCE 2021; 77:43-54. [PMID: 32815250 DOI: 10.1002/ps.6048] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/09/2020] [Revised: 08/10/2020] [Accepted: 08/19/2020] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Amaranthus tuberculatus is the major weed species in many midwestern US row-crop production fields, and it is among the most problematic weeds in the world in terms of its ability to evolve herbicide resistance. It has now evolved resistance to herbicides spanning seven unique sites of action, with populations and even individual plants often possessing resistance to several herbicides/herbicide groups. Historically, herbicide target-site changes accounted for most of the known resistance mechanisms in this weed; however, over the last few years, non-target-site mechanisms, particularly enhanced herbicide detoxification, have become extremely common in A. tuberculatus. Unravelling the genetics and molecular details of non-target-site resistance mechanisms, understanding the extent to which they confer cross resistance to other herbicides, and understanding how they evolve remain as critical research endeavors. Transcriptomic and genomics approaches are already facilitating such studies, the results of which hopefully will inform better resistance-mitigation strategies. The largely unprecedented level of herbicide resistance in A. tuberculatus is not only a fascinating example of evolution in action, but it is a serious and growing threat to the sustainability of midwestern US cropping systems. © 2020 Society of Chemical Industry.
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- Patrick J Tranel
- Department of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, USA
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A Trp574Leu Target-Site Mutation Confers Imazamox Resistance in Multiple Herbicide-Resistant Wild Poinsettia Populations from Brazil. AGRONOMY-BASEL 2020. [DOI: 10.3390/agronomy10081057] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Wild poinsettia (Euphorbia heterophylla L.) is an important weed species in southern Brazil, especially due to the evolution of multiple herbicide resistance (e.g., acetolactate synthase (ALS)- inhibitors, protoporphyrinogen oxidase inhibitors, and glyphosate). The mechanism of resistance to imazamox was investigated in two wild poinsettia populations (R1 and R2) from southern Brazil and compared to a known susceptible (S) population. Imazamox dose-response experiments revealed high levels of resistance: 45-fold and 224.5-fold based on dry biomass reduction, for R1 and R2, respectively. Extremely high concentrations of imazamox (20,000 µM) were not sufficient to provide 50% inhibition of ALS enzyme activity (I50) for R1 or R2. Hence, resistance levels were estimated to be greater than 123-fold for both populations based on in vitro ALS assays. The ALS gene from all R1 and R2 plants had a Trp574Leu mutation. A genotyping assay was developed to discriminate resistant and susceptible alleles based on the Trp574Leu mutation.
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