Gene amplification confers glyphosate resistance in <i>Amaranthus palmeri</i>

A. Gaines, Todd; Zhang, Wenli; Wang, Dafu; Bükün, Bekir; T. Chisholm, Stephen; L. Shaner, Dale; J. Nissen, Scott; L. Patzoldt, William; J. Tranel, Patrick; Stanley Culpepper, A.; L. Grey, Timothy; M. Webster, Theodore; K. Vencill, William; Douglas Sammons, R.; Jiang, Jiming; Preston, Christopher; E. Leach, Jan; Westra, Philip

doi:10.1073/pnas.0906649107

Public

Gene amplification confers glyphosate resistance in Amaranthus palmeri

Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences • Dec 14, 2009

Authors:

Todd A. Gaines

Wenli Zhang

Dafu Wang

Abstract

The herbicide glyphosate became widely used in the United States and other parts of the world after the commercialization of glyphosate-resistant crops. These crops have constitutive overexpression of a glyphosate-insensitive form of the herbicide target site gene, 5-enolpyruvylshikimate-3-phosphate...

Subject

Biology

Glyphosate

Gene

Research Assistant

AI chat, annotations, notes & similar papers

Finding related papers...

Discussions

(0)

No comments yet

Be the first to share your thoughts!