Brunharo Caio A C G, Tranel Patrick J
Department of Plant Science The Pennsylvania State University University Park Pennsylvania USA.
Department of Crop Sciences University of Illinois Urbana Illinois USA.
Evol Appl. 2023 Nov 20;16(12):1969-1981. doi: 10.1111/eva.13615. eCollection 2023 Dec.
Herbicide resistance in weeds is one of the greatest challenges in modern food production. The grass species is an excellent model species to investigate evolution under similar selection pressure because populations have repeatedly evolved resistance to many herbicides, utilizing a multitude of mechanisms to neutralize herbicide damage. In this work, we investigated the gene that encodes acetyl-CoA carboxylase (ACCase), the target site of the most successful herbicide group available for grass weed control. We sampled populations from agricultural fields with history of intense herbicide use, and studied their response to three ACCase-inhibiting herbicides. To elucidate the mechanisms of herbicide resistance and the genetic relationship among populations, we resolved the haplotypes of 97 resistant and susceptible individuals by sequencing amplicons using long-read DNA sequencing technologies. Our dose-response data indicated the existence of many, often unpredictable, resistance patterns to ACCase-inhibiting herbicides, where populations exhibited as much as 37-fold reduction in herbicide response. The majority of the populations exhibited resistance to all three herbicides studied. Phylogenetic and molecular genetic analyses revealed multiple evolutionary origins of resistance-endowing haplotypes, as well as widespread admixture in the region regardless of cropping system. The amplicons generated were diverse, with haplotypes exhibiting 26-110 polymorphisms. Polymorphisms included insertions and deletions 1-31 bp in length, none of which were associated with the resistance phenotype based on an association analysis. We also found evidence that some populations have multiple mechanisms of resistance. Our results highlight the astounding genetic diversity in populations, and the potential for repeated evolution of herbicide resistance across the landscape that challenges weed management approaches and jeopardizes sustainable weed control practices. We provide an in-depth discussion of the evolutionary and practical implications of our results.
杂草中的抗除草剂性是现代粮食生产中面临的最大挑战之一。禾本科杂草是研究在类似选择压力下进化的优秀模式物种,因为其种群多次进化出对多种除草剂的抗性,利用多种机制来中和除草剂的损害。在这项研究中,我们调查了编码乙酰辅酶A羧化酶(ACCase)的基因,该基因是用于控制禾本科杂草的最成功除草剂组的作用靶标位点。我们从有大量除草剂使用历史的农田中采集了种群样本,并研究了它们对三种抑制ACCase的除草剂的反应。为了阐明抗除草剂机制以及种群之间的遗传关系,我们使用长读长DNA测序技术对扩增子进行测序,解析了97个抗性和敏感个体的单倍型。我们的剂量反应数据表明,对抑制ACCase的除草剂存在许多通常不可预测的抗性模式,其中种群的除草剂反应降低了多达37倍。大多数种群对所研究的三种除草剂均表现出抗性。系统发育和分子遗传学分析揭示了赋予抗性的单倍型有多个进化起源,并且该区域无论种植系统如何都存在广泛的混合现象。产生的扩增子具有多样性,单倍型表现出26 - 110个多态性。多态性包括长度为1 - 31 bp的插入和缺失,基于关联分析,这些多态性均与抗性表型无关。我们还发现有证据表明一些种群具有多种抗性机制。我们的结果突出了禾本科杂草种群中惊人的遗传多样性,以及整个区域除草剂抗性反复进化的可能性,这对杂草管理方法构成挑战,并危及可持续的杂草控制措施。我们对结果的进化和实际意义进行了深入讨论。