Target sites for herbicides: entering the 21st century
- 30 September 2002
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Wiley in Pest Management Science
- Vol. 58 (11), 1149-1154
- https://doi.org/10.1002/ps.560
Abstract
At present the use‐rate of modern herbicides is in the range of 100–300 g AI ha−1, with a tendency to decline. The low use‐rate (ca 10 g AI ha−1) of the original sulfonylurea and cyclic imide herbicides prompted agrochemical scientists to look for even more active compounds which led to the successive discoveries of many new herbicidal acetolactate synthase inhibitors and no less than 18 cyclic imides in the class of protoporphyrinogen‐IX oxidase inhibitors in the 1990s. In this paper, mechanisms of action related to function and biosynthesis of chlorophylls, carotenoids, plastoquinone, amino acids, fatty acids and photosynthetic electron transport and other metabolic processes are discussed as plant‐specific herbicidal target domains. © 2002 Society of Chemical IndustryKeywords
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