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. 1987 Aug;84(4):1442–1446. doi: 10.1104/pp.84.4.1442

Atrazine Resistance in Chenopodium album

Low and High Levels of Resistance to the Herbicide Are Related to the Same Chloroplast PSBA Gene Mutation

Priscilla Bettini 1,2,1, Sheila McNally 1,2,2, Mireille Sevignac 1,2, Henri Darmency 1,2,3, Jacques Gasquez 1,2, Michel Dron 1,2,4
PMCID: PMC1056793  PMID: 16665624

Abstract

In Chenopodium album two different levels of atrazine resistance have been found according to following criteria: lethal dose and leaf fluorescence curve. The intermediate (I) phenotype is represented by a low level of resistance and a typical I fluorescence curve. It arose at high frequency, within one generation, after self-pollination of particular plants displaying a susceptible (S) phenotype. The resistance phenotype (Ri) has a high level of resistance and presents a typical resistant fluorescence curve. It appeared after self-pollination of chemically treated I plants. The I, Ri, and also R (resistant plants found in atrazine treated fields) phenotypes contain a serine to glycine mutation at amino acid position 264 in the chloroplast psbA gene product. The steady state level of the psbA gene transcript is not modified between S, I, Ri, and R phenotypes.

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