Abstract
Asiatic dayflower (Commelina communis L.) is a detrimental weed that mainly infests corn and soybean fields in China. Recently, some C. communis populations have exhibited resistance to atrazine, intensifying the difficulties in controlling the weed. However, little is known on the mechanism underlying C. communis resistance to atrazine. Therefore, two populations collected from Jilin (JL-1) and Jiangsu (JS-10) provinces of China were used to evaluate their growth responses to atrazine. The results showed that the JL-1 population displayed a low level of resistance to atrazine compared with JS-10 population, with the resistant index (RI) value of 2.9. To determine if a mutation in the psbA gene was the basis for varied resistance to this herbicide, the full-length gene encoding 353 amino acids with no intron was sequenced by using genome-walking techniques. No mutation known to confer resistance to atrazine was observed in either JL-1 or JS-10 populations. The malondialdehyde (MDA) contents relative to the control group were significantly higher in JS-10 population than in JL-1 population at 7 days after treatment with atrazine, suggesting that atrazine induced severer oxidant damage on JS-10 population. Additionally, significantly enhanced activities of antioxidant enzymes, including superoxide dismutase (SOD), catalase (CAT), peroxidase (POD) and ascorbate peroxidase (APX), were detected in the JL-1 population, which was most likely to confer resistance to atrazine. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first investigation into the potential genetic and enzymatic differences contributing to atrazine resistance in this population.
Funder
National Key Research and Development Program of China
the Earmarked Fund for China Agriculture Research System
Subject
Plant Science,Ecology,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
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