The invention provides transgenic or non-transgenic plants with improved
levels of tolerance to AHAS-inhibiting herbicides. The invention also
provides nucleic acids encoding mutants of the acetohydroxyacid synthase
(AHAS) large subunit, expression vectors, plants comprising the
polynucleotides encoding the AHASL subunits containing single, double or
more mutations, plants comprising one, two or more AHASL subunit single
mutant polypeptides, methods for making and using the same, and methods
of controlling weeds.