Multiple Herbicide Resistance Evolution: The Case of Eleusine indica in Brazil
Vázquez-García, Jé.G.; Alcántara-de la Cruz, R.; Rojano-Delgado, A.M.; Palma-Bautista, C.; de Portugal Vasconcelos, Jão.M.; De Prado, R.
Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 2021
2021
ISSN/ISBN: 0021-8561
PMID: 33470815
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.0c03999
Accession: 071105304
The occurrence of multiple herbicide resistant weeds has increased considerably in glyphosate-resistant soybean fields in Brazil; however, the mechanisms governing this resistance have not been studied. In its study, the target-site and nontarget-site mechanisms were characterized in an Eleusine indica population (R-15) with multiple resistance to the acetyl-CoA carboxylase (ACCase) inhibitors, glyphosate, imazamox, and paraquat. Absorption and translocation rates of C-14-diclofop-methyl(14)C-imazamox and C-14-glyphosate of the R-15 population were similar to those of a susceptible (S-15) population; however, the R-15 population translocated similar to 38% less C-14-paraquat to the rest of plant and roots than the S-15 population. Furthermore, the R-15 plants metabolized (by P450 cytochrome) 55% and 88% more diclofop-methyl (conjugate) and imazamox (imazamox-OH and conjugate), respectively, than the S-15 plants. In addition, the Pro-106-Ser mutation was found in the EPSPS gene of this population. This report describes the first characterization of the resistance mechanisms in a multiple herbicide resistant weed from Brazil.