AHRI Snapshots
AHRI Snapshots is a podcast that provides information on what we do at the Australian Herbicide Resistance Initiative, as well as finding out what other researchers in weed science are up to around the country and the world. AHRI's researchers work out of the University of Western Australia, right next to the beautiful Swan River in WA's capital, Perth.
AHRI Snapshots
Dr Qin Yu's team discovers naturally evolving point mutation which confers resistance to Glufosinate in goosegrass
Glufosinate is an important and widely used non-selective herbicide active on a wide range of plant species.
Resistance evolution to glufosinate in weedy plant species, including the global weed Eleusine indica, commonly known as goosegrass, is underway.
At AHRI, Principal Research Fellow, Qin Yu and her team established the molecular basis of target-site glufosinate resistance in goosegrass.
In this first AHRI Snapshots podcast for 2022, Qin Yu joins us to explain the results in the paper: A naturally evolved mutation (Ser-59-Gly) in glutamine synthetase confers glufosinate resistance in plants.
This work reveals a naturally evolving point mutation in glutamine synthetase that confers resistance to glufosinate in Eleusine indica, known as goosegrass.
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