The Development of Herbicide Resistant Crops

(…) Here we review recent work in the development of herbicide-resistant crops. A list of the herbicides for which these efforts have been initiated, along with their structures and their primary targets, is given in Table 1. We present examples of the introduction of herbicide resistance into crop plants by several different techniques, the status of development of herbicide-resistant cultivars, and future prospects for such work. (…) Contents introduction: Genetics in Agriculture, Herbicides in Agriculture. Plants resistant to amino acid biosynthesis inhibitors: Sulfonylureas and Imidazolinones, Glyphosate, Phosphinothricin. Plants resistant to photosynthesis inhibitors: Atrazine, Bromoxynil