Abstract:In order to demonstrate the mechanism of field bindweed tolerant to glyphosate, the effects of glyphosate on growth and shikimic acid accumulation of field bindweed Convolvulus arvensis and Japanese bindweed Calystegia hederacea were studied in greenhouse. And the EPSPS and encoded amino sequence of two weeds were compared. The results of bioassay and shikimic acid assay showed that the tolerance of field bindweed to glyphosate was significantly higher than that of Japanese bindweed, the GR50 values were 2 834.04 g/hm2 and 210.63 g/hm2(ai). The shikimic acid accumulation of field bindweed rose slowly and reached the peak value (397.69 μg/g) 7 days after treatment; whereas that of Japanese bindweed increased rapidly and continuously and reached the peak value (1 299.52 μg/g) 13 days after treatment. The full length of cDNA in EPSPS measured from field bindweed and Japanese bindweed were both 1 707 bp, encoding 520 amino acids. Sequence analysis showed that, different amino acid sites existed in two conserved region of both field bindweed and Japanese bindweed. The 101 amino acid in field bindweeds was polar serine, whereas the same site in Japanese bindweed was non-polar phenylalanine.