Herbicide Resistance: Mechanisms, Inheritance, and Molecular Genetics Glossary
- cross-resistance
 Resistance within a plant to herbicides with the same site of action but from different herbicide families.
- herbicide-resistance
 The inherited ability of a plant to survive a herbicide to which the wild type was susceptible.
- Metabolism
 The sum of all chemcial processess occurring within a cell or an organism.
- multiple-resistance
 Resistance within a plant to herbicides with different sites of action.