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Molecular Characterization of the Tubulin-Related Gene Families in Herbicide Resistant and Susceptible Goosegrass (Eleusine indica)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2017

Kirankumar S. Mysore  and
Wm. Vance Baird
Kirankumar S. Mysore
Affiliation:
Dep. Hortic., Clemson University, Poole Agric. Bldg., Clemson, SC 29634-0375
Wm. Vance Baird
Affiliation:
Dep. Hortic., Clemson University, Poole Agric. Bldg., Clemson, SC 29634-0375
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Abstract

Goosegrass, wide spread throughout the tropics and subtropics, is one of the most noxious weeds known. Recently, biotypes of goosegrass have been found resistant to the dinitroaniline herbicides. An alteration in the structure/composition of a tubulin protein has been postulated as an explanation for the hyperstable microtubules and the resistant phenotype. Our study was initiated to investigate the structure of the alpha (α)-, beta (β)- and gamma (γ)-tubulin related gene sequences in resistant, intermediately resistant, and susceptible biotypes. Heterologous tubulin gene clones were used as probes of restriction endonuclease-digested genomic DNA from each biotype, to determine gene size and copy number and to screen for restriction fragment length polymorphisms. The tubulin genes are organized into gene families. There are three to five α-tubulin genes, four to seven β-tubulin genes, and four to eight γ-tubulin genes. There was no evidence of multiple copies or tandem repeats of any individual gene sequence. Although RFLPs were observed, no significant difference in the banding pattern between the resistant and the susceptible biotypes was found for either α-, β-, or γ-tubulin gene families. Therefore, it is unlikely that the difference between the herbicide-response phenotypes can be attributed to large deletions or insertions in a tubulin gene.

Keywords

Goosegrass, Eleusine indica (L.) Gaertn. #3 ELEINgreen foxtail, Setaria viridis (L.) Beauv. # SETVIAlpha-tubulinbeta-tubulingammatubulindinitroanilineherbicide resistancemicrotubulesrestriction fragment length polymorphismsRFLPELEIN
Type
Physiology, Chemistry, and Biochemistry
Information
Weed Science , Volume 43 , Issue 1 , March 1995 , pp. 28 - 33
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Copyright © 1995 by the Weed Science Society of America 

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