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Developing herbicide resistance in crops by gene transfer technology

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Plant Genetic Engineering

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Abstract

Herbicides have become an indispensable tool of modern agriculture in that they allow economically superior weed control and are more labour- and energy-efficient than manual or mechanical cultivation methods. Although many agronomically useful compounds pollute the environment, others are reasonably safe because they are rapidly degraded in the biosphere and/or are non-toxic to animals. The information available elucidating the mode of action of several compounds has rapidly increased in the past few years. This fact, coupled with the progress achieved in the genetic manipulation of plants and the ability to transfer foreign genetic material from a variety of sources to plants (see Chapter 2), has opened up an exciting the productive area of research. These observations are further enhanced in that many possible herbicide resistance gene determinants are single dominant traits, making them amenable to gene transfer techniques. The ensuing result will hopefully be the expanded use of environmentally safer herbicides which favour a broader weed control spectrum as concern increases over contamination of the environment, toxicity to animals and persistence of residues in soil and water. Another exciting aspect of this research is the potential for the genetic manipulation of new herbicide resistance determinants that complement new classes of broad-spectrum biorational herbicidal compounds.

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Stalker, D.M. (1991). Developing herbicide resistance in crops by gene transfer technology. In: Grierson, D. (eds) Plant Genetic Engineering. Plant Biotechnology Series. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-9646-1_3

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