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Resistance to triazine herbicides in higher plants was first observed in 1970. A mutation in the photosystem II reaction center D1 protein at position Ser264→Gly is responsible for this resistance. So far, 37 single mutants, 16 double mutants, 5 triple mutants and 5 deletion/insertion mutants in the D1 protein have been obtained by randomly induced and site-directed mutagenesis in cyanobacteria and algae. The influence of these mutations on the binding affinities of different classes of herbicides will be discussed. Because a sufficiently high resolution X-ray structure of photosystem II does not yet exist, the reaction center of purple photosynthetic bacteria, which is homologeous to photosystem II, served as a model. In the bacterial reaction center a total of 25 single and 3 double herbicide-resistant mutants have been generated.
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Received 22 December 1998; received after revision 22 February 1999; accepted 22 February 1999
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Oettmeier, W. Herbicide resistance and supersensitivity in photosystem II . CMLS, Cell. Mol. Life Sci. 55, 1255–1277 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/s000180050370
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