Learning lessons from drug resistance to tackle herbicide resistance. Herbicide-resistant weeds pose a major threat to the profitability and sustainability of Australia’s $78B agricultural industry. L

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Learning lessons from drug resistance to tackle herbicide resistance. Herbicide-resistant weeds pose a major threat to the profitability and sustainability of Australia’s $78B agricultural industry. Learning how resistance arises and spreads is key for developing strategies to preserve and restore herbicide efficacy. This project aims to draw on parallels with drug resistance to investigate how plant communication via extracellular vesicles may mediate herbicide resistance. Expected outcomes include new strategies for monitoring of resistance, targets for resistance circumvention, and restoration of herbicide susceptibility in resistant weeds; with long-term economic and environmental benefits arising from substantially reduced herbicide requirements, and improved crop yields safeguarding food security.. Scheme: Discovery Projects. Field: 3108 - Plant Biology. Lead: A/Prof Tatiana Soares da Costa