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Australian Herbicide Resistance Initiative (AHRI)
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Do plants pay a fitness cost to be resistant to glyphosate?
This paper reviews the literature to understand the effects of glyphosate resistance on plant fitness at the molecular, biochemical and physiological levels. A number of correlations between enzyme characteristics and glyphosate resistance imply the existence of a plant fitness cost associated with resistance-conferring mutations in the glyphosate target enzyme, 5-enolpyruvylshikimate-3-phosphate synthase (EPSPS). These biochemical changes result in a tradeoff between the glyphosate resistance of the EPSPS enzyme and its catalytic activity.
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Evolved Resistance to Glyphosate in Junglerice (Echinochloa colona) from the Tropical Ord River Region in Australia
The objective of this study was to determine whether a jungle rice population from the tropical Ord River region of northwest Australia was glyphosate-resistant and whether alternative herbicides labelled for jungle rice control were still effective. Seed samples collected from the field site were initially screened with glyphosate in the glasshouse, and surviving individuals were self-pollinated for subsequent glyphosate dose-response studies. Glyphosate resistance was confirmed, as the suspected resistant population was found to be 8.6-fold more resistant to glyphosate than a susceptible population-based on survival (LD50 of 3.72 kg ha21), and 5.6-fold more resistant based on biomass reduction (GR50 of 1.16 kg ha21).
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Aldo-keto reductase metabolizes glyphosate and confers glyphosate resistance in Echinochloa colona
In this Plant Physiology paper, it is clearly established that glyphosate resistance in this Echinochloa population is due to an enhanced capacity to metabolise glyphosate, catalysed by an Aldo-keto reductase gene. The first author on the paper is Dr Pan Lang, now at the Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha, China. Pan Lang spent one year in our AHRI laboratory on a China Scholarship Council award and he continued this research upon his return to China.
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