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1 May 2018 Investigations of 2,4-D and Multiple Herbicide Resistance in a Missouri Waterhemp (Amaranthus tuberculatus) Population
Lovreet S. Shergill, Blake R. Barlow, Mandy D. Bish, Kevin W. Bradley
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Abstract

Research was conducted from 2015 to 2017 to investigate the potential for 2,4-D and multiple herbicide resistance in a waterhemp [Amaranthus tuberculatus (Moq.) J. D. Sauer] population from Missouri (designated MO-Ren). In the field, visual control of the MO-Ren population with 0.56 to 4.48 kg 2,4-D ha-1 ranged from 26% to 77% in 2015 and from 15% to 55% in 2016. The MO-Ren population was highly resistant to chlorimuron, with visual control never exceeding 7% either year. Estimates of the 2,4-D dose required to provide 50% visual control (I50) of the MO-Ren population were 1.44 kg ha-1 compared with only 0.47 kg 2,4-D ha-1 for the susceptible population. Based on comparisons to a susceptible population in dose–response experiments, the MO-Ren population was approximately 3-fold resistant to 2,4-D, and 7-, 7-, 22-, and 14-fold resistant to atrazine, fomesafen, glyphosate, and mesotrione, respectively. Dicamba and glufosinate were the only two herbicides that provided effective control of the MO-Ren population in these experiments. Examinations of multiple herbicide resistance at the individual plant level revealed that 16% of the plants of the MO-Ren population contained genes stacked for six-way herbicide resistance, and only 1% of plants were classified as resistant to a single herbicide (glyphosate). Results from these experiments confirm that the MO-Ren A. tuberculatus population is resistant to 2,4-D, atrazine, chlorimuron, fomesafen, glyphosate, and mesotrione, making this population the third 2,4-D-resistant A. tuberculatus population identified in the United States, and the first population resistant to six different herbicidal modes of action.

© Weed Science Society of America, 2018.
Lovreet S. Shergill, Blake R. Barlow, Mandy D. Bish, and Kevin W. Bradley "Investigations of 2,4-D and Multiple Herbicide Resistance in a Missouri Waterhemp (Amaranthus tuberculatus) Population," Weed Science 66(3), 386-394, (1 May 2018). https://doi.org/10.1017/wsc.2017.82
Received: 8 October 2017; Accepted: 12 December 2017; Published: 1 May 2018
KEYWORDS
Auxinic herbicides
Gene stacking
growth regulator herbicides
six-way resistance
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