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Molecular and phenotypic characterization of Als1 and Als2 mutations conferring tolerance to acetolactate synthase herbicides in soybean.
Pest management science - 1 Dec 2014
Walter Kay L, Strachan Stephen D, Ferry Nancy M, Albert Henrik H, Castle Linda A, Sebastian Scott A
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BACKGROUND: Sulfonylurea (SU) herbicides are effective because they inhibit acetolactate synthase (ALS), a key enzyme in branched-chain amino acid synthesis required for plant growth. A soybean line known as W4-4 was developed through rounds of seed mutagenesis and was demonstrated to have a high degree of ALS-based resistance to both post-emergence and pre-emergence applications of a variety of SU herbicides....
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