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. 2023 Dec 15;71(51):20532–20548. doi: 10.1021/acs.jafc.3c07166

Table 2. HRAC (2022) Classification of Commercial Herbicide Molecular Targets (Those in Bold Are Also Found in Fungi, and Those in Both Bold and Italics are Targets of Commercial Fungicides)a.

classification group target
1 acetyl CoA carboxylase
2 acetolactate synthase
3 microtubule subunits
4 auxin mimics (F-box proteins)
5 and 6 D-1 protein of photosystem II
9 5-enolypyruvylshikimate-3-phosphate synthase
10 glutamine synthetase
12 phytoene desaturase
13 deoxy-D-xyulose-5-phosphate synthase
14 protoporphyrinogen oxidase
15 very long-chain fatty acid synthase
18 dihydropteroate synthase
19 auxin transport inhibitor
22 electron diversion from PSI
23 microtubule organization
24 mitochondrial uncoupler
27 hydroxyphenyl pyruvate dioxygenase
28 dihydroorotate dehydrogenase
29 cellulose synthesis
30 fatty acid thioesterase
31 Ser/Thr protein phosphatase
32 solanyl diphosphate synthase
33 homogentisate solanyltransferase
34 lycopene cyclase
a

The molecular targets of several commercial chemical herbicides are listed as unknown by HRAC.