Researchers have often invoked the concept of metabolic drain to explain the lower growth rates of bacteria containing plasmids that confer antibiotic resistance. This idea posits that the energetic input needed to produce detoxifying enzymes diverts resources from clonal reproduction. In this paper we examine whether the concept of metabolic drain can be applied successfully to plants that dif...

Cells resistant to the sulfonylurea herbicides chlorsulfuron and sulfometuron methyl were isolated from a predominantly haploid cell suspension culture of Datura innoxia P. Mill. Exponentially growing cell colonies (aggregates of about 40 cells) were mutagenized with ethyl methane sulfonate, subcultured for 10 days to allow growth recovery and plated on a medium containing either chlorsulfuron ...

Flaxleaf fleabane is a difficult-to-control weed in dryland minimum tillage farming systems in the northeast grains region of Australia. Experiments were conducted between 2003 and 2005 to identify effective control strategies on flaxleaf fleabane in wheat and sorghum. A preplant application of chlorsulfuron at 15 g ai/ha in wheat controlled flaxleaf fleabane $ 90%. The efficacy of early postem...

The herbicides chlorsulfuron and clopyralid were taken up rapidly by excised pea root tissue and accumulated in the tissue to concentrations ten and four times those in the external medium, respectively. Uptake was related linearly to external herbicide concentration over a wide concentration range, implying that transport across the membrane is by nonfacilitated diffusion. Uptake of both compo...

The maize transposable element Activator (Ac) has been shown to be active in a number of dicots, including Arabidopsis thaliana, whose small genome and short generation time have favored its wide adoption as a model organism for molecular genetic approaches to plant physiology and development. Using the Ac element and several bacterial and plant marker genes, we have devised a versatile system ...

Aminooxyacetate, a known inhibitor of transaminase reactions and glycine decarboxylase, promotes rapid depletion of the free pools of serine and aspartate in nitrate grown Lemna minor L. This compound markedly inhibits the methionine sulfoximine-induced accumulation of free ammonium ions and greatly restricts the methionine sulfoximine-induced depletion of amino acids such as glutamate, alanine...

Selection of kochia (Kochia scoparia) biotypes resistant to the sulfonylurea herbicide chlorsulfuron has occurred through the continued use of this herbicide in monoculture cereal-growing areas in the United States. The apparent sulfonylurea resistance observed in kochia was confirmed in greenhouse tests. Fresh and dry weight accumulation in the resistant kochia was 2- to >350-fold higher in th...

Abstract Field and pot experiments were conducted in Greece to study the occurrence of resistance silky windgrass acetolactate synthase (ALS)- acetyl-CoA (ACCase)-inhibiting herbicides. Twenty-four populations examined whole-plant response experiments. High levels field-evolved chlorsulfuron (0% 28% control terms fresh weight reduction) with recommended field rates confirmed most populations. H...

Peer-reviewed research is not available to explain Polygonum aviculare L. (prostrate knotweed) control in Cynodon dactylon (bermudagrass) turf, yet P. common and troublesome managed C. turf. Six experiments were conducted determine options for golf roughs Hanover, VA. Studies evaluated hormone, photosystem, ALS inhibiting herbicides. Among a group of eighteen herbicide treatments, only six cont...