El. knyga: Target Sites of Herbicide Action

A supplement to the two-volume Weed physiology (CRC, 1985) this collection of articles focuses on herbicides and the biochemistry involved in xenobiotics affecting plant metabolism. Ten chapters address: herbicidal targets within the chloroplast; herbicide-induced radical formation and the antioxidative radical-quenching system of the plant cell; the efforts of gene technology to produce herbicide-resistant plants; inhibitor enzymology (a review); reaction sites which have not yet been targeted but should be considered for future inhibition studies and herbicide development. Acidic paper. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

This publication is based on the plant processes and reaction sites for which reliable knowledge on both their physiology and biochem-istry and the mode of herbicidal action is available

This publication is based on the plant processes and reaction sites for which reliable knowledge on both their physiology and biochem-istry and the mode of herbicidal action is available. Targets of the agrochemical research, such as enzymes of biosynthetic pathways or herbicide-binding peptides in the photosynthetic membrane, are highlighted. Detailed knowledge about the target sites will allow bio-chemical model systems to evaluate the biological activity of newly synthesized compounds before their conventional screening in the greenhouse. Quantitative structure/activity relationships should be performed more reliably with simple biological species or enzymol-ogy assays, to aid in the rational design of pesticides. This text is highly valuable for plant physiologists, pathologists, and chemists in the agrochemical industry and universities.