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The proportionately high number of cases of acetolactate synthase (ALS) inhibitor herbicide resistance in weed populations to date and the relatively short span of commercial availability of these herbicides suggest that genetic variation for resistance may be present in many weed species (Hawkes, 1993). If resistance genes are present in a population, their mode of inheritance is an important determinant of the rate of development of herbicide resistance (Maxwell and Mortimer, 1994). In those cases where ALS-inhibitor herbicide resistance has been carefully characterised, the trait has often been due to plants possessing an insensitive form of ALS (Devine et al., 1991; Saari et al.,1992). In addition, the mode of inheritance has been shown to involve a nuclear encoded single gene expressing partial dominance (e.g. Mallory-Smith et al., 1990).
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Mackenzie, R., Mortimer, A.M., Putwain, P.D., Bryan, I.B., Hawkes, T.R. (1997). The Potential for the Evolution of Herbicide Resistance: Selection, Characterisation and Polygenic Inheritance of Resistance to Chlorsulfuron in Perennial Ryegrass. In: De Prado, R., Jorrín, J., García-Torres, L. (eds) Weed and Crop Resistance to Herbicides. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5538-0_23
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