Biochemical bases for a widespread tolerance of cyanobacteria to the phosphonate herbicide glyphosate

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 443-456

  Forlani, Giuseppe ^a   Pavan, Mauro ^a   Gramek, Magdalena ^a,b   Kafarski, Paweł ^b,c   Lipok, Jacek ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OPOLE   (Poland)

^c WROCLAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Cyanobacteria; EPSP synthase; Glyphosate; Herbicide tolerance; Phosphonate phosphate uptake; Target enzyme based resistance; Xenobiotic metabolism

Indexed keywords

3 PHOSPHOSHIKIMATE 1 CARBOXYVINYLTRANSFERASE; DRUG DERIVATIVE; GLYCINE; GLYPHOSATE; HERBICIDE; PHOSPHONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; PHOSPHORUS;

ARTICLE; CYANOBACTERIUM; DRUG EFFECT; GENETICS; HERBICIDE RESISTANCE; METABOLISM; MUTATION; TIME;

3-PHOSPHOSHIKIMATE 1-CARBOXYVINYLTRANSFERASE; CYANOBACTERIA; GLYCINE; HERBICIDE RESISTANCE; HERBICIDES; MUTATION; PHOSPHONIC ACIDS; PHOSPHORUS; TIME FACTORS;

CYANOBACTERIA;

EID: 40849095973     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: 14719053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcn021     Document Type: Article

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