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Resistance of Chenopodium albumto photosystem II-inhibitors.
Communications in agricultural and applied biological sciences - 1 Jan 2008
Mechant E, De Marez T, Hermann O, Bulcke R
Abstract excerpt
Chenopodium album L. (fat-hen), a highly competitive and very prolific species, is a common weed in most spring- and summer-sown crops such as maize, sugar beet and vegetables. In the late seventies, C. album stepped into the limelight as a problem weed in maize. Frequent use of atrazine in maize monoculture did select for plants having a Ser-264-Gly mutation on the psbA gene resulting in atrazine-resistance and...
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