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. 2022 Nov;78(11):4939-4946.
doi: 10.1002/ps.7114. Epub 2022 Aug 17.

Inheritance of dicamba-resistance in allotetraploid Chenopodium album

Hossein Ghanizadeh  1 , Kerry C Harrington  1 , Lulu He  1 , Trevor K James  2
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Inheritance of dicamba-resistance in allotetraploid Chenopodium album

Hossein Ghanizadeh et al. Pest Manag Sci. 2022 Nov.

Abstract

Background: Chenopodium album L. is a troublesome weed in spring-planted crops, and different levels of ploidy have been documented for this weed species. A population of C. album has evolved resistance to dicamba. The level of ploidy and inheritance of dicamba resistance was studied in this population.

Results: The resistant and susceptible individuals of C. album were confirmed as tetraploid by flow cytometry. Pair-crosses were made between ten resistant and susceptible individuals. Eight F1 individuals from five crosses were confirmed resistant after treating with dicamba at 400 g a.e. ha-1 . These individuals were selfed, and the response of their progenies to dicamba was assessed in dose-response experiments, and the results confirmed the resistance trait was dominant. Furthermore, an analysis of the segregation patterns revealed that the segregation response of all F2 progenies fitted a 3:1 (resistant/susceptible) ratio when treated with dicamba at 200, 400 and 800 g a.e. ha-1 , suggesting a single gene was responsible for dicamba resistance.

Conclusions: Dicamba resistance in the studied tetraploid population of C. album is governed by a single dominant gene. This type of inheritance suggests that selection for dicamba resistance can occur readily. © 2022 The Authors. Pest Management Science published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Society of Chemical Industry.

Keywords: dicamba; genetic inheritance; herbicide resistance; polyploidy.

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Figures

Figure 1
Figure 1
Variation in leaf morphology between (A) dicamba‐resistant and (B) dicamba‐susceptible Chenopodium album.
Figure 2
Figure 2
Flow cytometric histograms representing nuclear DNA content of nuclei released by fresh leaf tissue of (A) dicamba‐susceptible and (B) dicamba‐resistant Chenopodium album. Trifolium repens as an internal standard to provide an unbiased relative measure of DNA content. The peaks marked as P1 and P2 represent DAPI‐stained nuclei at G1‐phase and G2‐phase.
Figure 3
Figure 3
Dicamba dose–response of resistant (R), susceptible (S) and the progenies of eight F2 families (F2.1–F2.8) of Chenopodium album in the first (A) and second (B) experiments. The percentage survival of treated plants was used to produce the fitted curves. Vertical bars represent standard deviation of the mean.
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