The Library
Herbicide cycling has diverse effects on evolution of resistance in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Tools
Lagator, Mato, Vogwill, Tom, Colegrave, Nick and Neve, Paul (2012) Herbicide cycling has diverse effects on evolution of resistance in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Evolutionary Applications, Vol.6 (No.2). pp. 197-206. doi:10.1111/j.1752-4571.2012.00276.x ISSN 1752-4571.
|
Text
WRAP_Lagator_eva276.pdf - Published Version Download (381Kb) | Preview |
Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1752-4571.2012.00276.x
Abstract
Cycling pesticides has been proposed as a means of retarding the evolution of resistance, but its efficacy has rarely been empirically tested. We evolved populations of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii in the presence of three herbicides: atrazine, glyphosate and carbetamide. Populations were exposed to a weekly, biweekly and triweekly cycling between all three pairwise combinations of herbicides and continuously to each of the three herbicides. We explored the impacts of herbicide cycling on the rate of resistance evolution, the level of resistance selected, the cost of resistance and the degree of generality (cross-resistance) observed. Herbicide cycling resulted in a diversity of outcomes: preventing evolution of resistance for some combinations of herbicides, having no impacts for others and increasing rates of resistance evolution in some instances. Weekly cycling of atrazine and carbetamide resulted in selection of a generalist population. This population had a higher level of resistance, and this generalist resistance was associated with a cost. The level of resistance selected did not vary amongst other regimes. Costs of resistance were generally highest when cycling was more frequent. Our data suggest that the effects of herbicide cycling on the evolution of resistance may be more complex and less favourable than generally assumed.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Subjects: | S Agriculture > SB Plant culture | ||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Life Sciences (2010- ) | ||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Chlamydomonas reinhardtii -- Effect of herbicides on, Herbicide resistance, Herbicides -- Application | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Evolutionary Applications | ||||
Publisher: | Blackwell Publishing | ||||
ISSN: | 1752-4571 | ||||
Official Date: | June 2012 | ||||
Dates: |
|
||||
Volume: | Vol.6 | ||||
Number: | No.2 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 197-206 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1111/j.1752-4571.2012.00276.x | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 23 December 2015 | ||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 23 December 2015 | ||||
Funder: | Leverhulme Trust (LT) |
Request changes or add full text files to a record
Repository staff actions (login required)
View Item |
Downloads
Downloads per month over past year