Aldo-keto Reductase Metabolizes Glyphosate and Confers Glyphosate Resistance in Echinochloa colona

• DOI: 10.1104/pp.19.00979
• Publication Date: 2019-09-24T19:55:14Z
• Authors: Lang Pan; Qin Yu; Heping Han; Lingfeng Mao; Alex Nyporko; LongJiang Fan; Lianyang Bai; Stephen Powles
• Keywords: Echinochloa crus-galli

Glyphosate, the most commonly used herbicide in world, controls a wide range of plant species, mainly because plants have little capacity to metabolize (detoxify) glyphosate. Massive glyphosate use has led world-wide evolution glyphosate-resistant (GR) weed including economically damaging grass