Mutation of alpha-tubulin genes in trifluralin-resistant water foxtail (Alopecurus aequalis)

Pest Management Science

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 422-429

  Hashim, Saima ^a,b   Jan, Asad ^a   Sunohara, Yukari ^a   Hachinohe, Mayumi ^a   Ohdan, Hideki ^c   Matsumoto, Hiroshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b THE UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Pakistan)

^c NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH CENTER FOR KYUSHU OKINAWA REGION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alpha tubulin mutation; Bioassay; Gene; MRNA; Trifluralin resistance

Indexed keywords

HERBICIDE; TRIFLURALIN; TUBULIN; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AGRICULTURAL SOIL; AMINO ACID; BIOASSAY; BIOTYPE; GENE EXPRESSION; GRASS; HERBICIDE; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; MUTATION; PESTICIDE RESISTANCE; PROTEIN; TRANSLOCATION; WEED CONTROL; WHEAT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; DRUG EFFECT; GENETICS; HERBICIDE RESISTANCE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POACEAE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; HERBICIDE RESISTANCE; HERBICIDES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PLANT PROTEINS; POACEAE; TRIFLURALIN; TUBULIN;

JAPAN; KYUSHU;

ALOPECURUS; ALOPECURUS AEQUALIS; ALOPECURUS GENICULATUS; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 84856568824     PISSN: 1526498X     EISSN: 15264998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ps.2284     Document Type: Article

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