Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-m6dg7 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-19T04:16:47.743Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Genetic Variability for Herbicide Reaction in Plant Populations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2017

Steven C. Price ,
James E. Hill  and
R. W. Allard
Steven C. Price
Affiliation:
Genetics Dep., Univ. of California
James E. Hill
Affiliation:
Genetics, Univ. of California, Davis, CA 95616
R. W. Allard
Affiliation:
Genetics, Univ. of California, Davis, CA 95616
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

The level of genetic variation for tolerance to herbicides was quantified in populations of slender wild oat (Avena barbata Brott. # AVEBA), wild oat (Avena fatua L. # AVEFA), and godetia (Clarkia williamsonii Lewis & Lewis) that had not been previously exposed to herbicides. Seedlings of wild oat and godetia were treated with barban (4-chloro-2-butynl-m-chlorocarbanilate) and bromoxynil (3,5-dibromo-4-hydroxybenzonitrile), respectively. The plants were rated for phytotoxic effects following treatment. A one-way analysis of variance on arcsin-transformed phytotoxicity ratings showed significant amounts of inter- and intrapopulation variability for herbicide reaction. Furthermore, the amount of genetic variance for herbicide reaction is higher than expected on the basis of mutation alone, suggesting selection favoring genes conferring herbicide tolerance occurs in natural populations.

Keywords

Herbicide resistanceAvena fatuabarbanbromoxynilgenotypic variancesAVEFAAVEBA
Type
Research Article
Information
Weed Science , Volume 31 , Issue 5 , September 1983 , pp. 652 - 657
Copyright
Copyright © 1983 Weed Science Society of America 

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Literature Cited

1. Allard, R. W., Jain, S. K., and Workman, P. L. 1968. The genetics of inbreeding populations. Adv. Genet. 14:55–31.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
2. Arntzen, C. J., Ditto, C. L., and Brewer, P. E. 1979. Chloroplast membrane alteration in triazine resistant Amaranthus retroflexus biotypes. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 76:278–282.Google Scholar
3. Brown, A.D.H. 1979. Enzyme polymorphisms in plant populations. Theor. Pop. Biol., 15:1–42.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
4. Comstock, R. and Robinson, H. 1952. Genetic parameters, their estimation and significance. Proc. Sixth Int. Grassl. Congr., 284–291.Google Scholar
5. Dobzhansky, Th. 1970. Genetics of the Evolutionary Process. Columbia University Press, New York. 505.Google Scholar
6. Falconer, D. 1960. Introduction to Quantitative Genetics. The Ronald Press, New York. 365.Google Scholar
7. Gressel, J. and Segel, L. A. 1978. The paucity of plants evolving genetic resistance to herbicides: possible reasons and implications. J. of Theor. Biol., 75:349–371.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
8. Gressel, J. 1979. Genetic herbicide resistance: projections and appearance in weeds and breeding for it in crops. Pages 85–109 in Scott, T. K., ed. Plant Regulations and World Agriculture. Plenum, New York.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
9. Holliday, R. J. and Putwain, P. D. 1977. Evolution of resistance to simazine in Senecio vulgaris L. Weed Res. 17:291–296.Google Scholar
10. Jana, S. and Naylor, J. M. 1982. Adaptation for herbicide tolerance in populations of Avena fatua L. Can. J. Bot. (In press).Google Scholar
11. Latter, B.D.H. 1960. Natural selection for an intermediate optimum. Aust. J. Biol. Sci., 13:30–35.Google Scholar
12. Marshall, D. R. and Jain, S. K. 1969. Phenotypic plasticity of Avena fatua and Avena barbata . Amer. Nat. 102:457–467.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
13. Matkin, O. A. and Chandler, P. A. 1957. The U.C. system for producing healthy container grown plants. Baker, K. F. ed. in Univ. of Calif. Div. Agric. Sci. Manual 23.Google Scholar
14. Scott, K. R. and Putwain, P. D. 1981. Maternal inheritance of simazine resistance in a population of Senecio vulgaris . Weed Res. 21:137–140.Google Scholar
15. Steel, and Torrie, . 1960. Principals and procedures of statistics. McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York. 481.Google Scholar