PRICKLY LETTUCE (Lactuca serriola) with GROUP B/2 resistance: (INHIBITION OF ACETOLACTATE SYNTHASE ) Inhibition of Acetolactate Synthase
MUTATION: PROLINE 197 to THREONINE
Prickly Lettuce (Lactuca serriola) is a dicot plant in the asteraceae family. A single amino acid substitution from Proline 197 to Threonine has led to resistance to Inhibition of Acetolactate Synthase as indicated in the table below.		Prickly Lettuce

Chemical Family	Example Herbicide	Resistance Level
Imidazolinones	Imazethapyr	Intermediate Resistance < 10 fold
Pyrimidinyl benzoates	Bispyribac-Na	Not Determined
Sulfonylureas	Chlorsulfuron	Resistant > 10 fold
Triazolopyrimidine - Type 1	Chloransulam-methyl	Intermediate Resistance < 10 fold
Triazolinones	Flucarbazone-Na	Not Determined

REFERENCES

Preston, C. ; Stone, L. M. ; Rieger, M. A. ; Baker, J.. 2006. Multiple effects of a naturally occurring proline to threonine substitution within acetolactate synthase in two herbicide-resistant populations of Lactuca serriola. Pesticide Biochemistry and Physiology 84 : 227 - 235.

Two populations of Lactuca serriola L. with resistance to acetolactate synthase (ALS)-inhibiting herbicides were discovered in wheat fields at two locations more than 25 km apart in South Australia. Both resistant populations carried a single base change within a highly conserved coding region of the ALS gene that coded for a single amino acid modification within ALS. The modification of proline 197 to threonine resulted in an enzyme that was highly resistant (>200-fold) to inhibition by sulfonylurea herbicides and moderately resistant to triazolopyrimidine and imidazolinone herbicides. The herbicide-resistant ALS was also less sensitive to inhibition by the branched-chain amino acids valine and leucine. In addition, the resistant enzyme had a lower K_m for pyruvate. However, extractable ALS activity was similar between resistant and susceptible plants. The substitution of threonine for proline 197 within ALS has multiple impacts on ALS enzyme activity in L. serriola that may influence the frequency of this resistant allele in the environment..

This case was entered by Patrick Tranel Email: tranel@illinois.edu

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