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WEED RESEARCH
Volume 48, Issue 2, Pages 97-101Publisher
BLACKWELL PUBLISHING
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3180.2007.00615.x
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acetolactate synthase; ALS; AHAS; dCAPS; herbicide; PCR; proactive diagnosis; mutation; resistance; sulfonylurea; grass weed
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Acetolactate synthase (ALS) inhibitors are the most resistance-prone herbicide group. Rapid resistance diagnosis is thus of importance for their optimal use. We formulate rules to use the derived cleaved amplified polymorphic sequence method to develop molecular tools detecting a change at a given codon, the nature of which is unknown. We applied them to Alopecurus myosuroides (black grass) to develop assays targeting ALS codons A122, P197, A205, W574 and S653 that are crucial for herbicide sensitivity. These assays detected W574L or P197T, or both substitutions, in most plants analysed from a field where ALS inhibitors failed after 3 years of use. Similar assays can easily be set up for any species. Given the rapidity of selection for resistance to ALS inhibitors, these assays should be very useful in proactive herbicide resistance diagnosis.
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