Scientists learn how horseweed shrugs off herbicide
Thursday, June 16, 2011 - 21:30
in Biology & Nature
A team of scientists was able to follow molecules of the glyphosate-based Roundup herbicides as they entered a resistant weed and to discover exactly how the plant disarms it. In a new paper, they describe a herbicide application technique that can be used to outfox the resistance mechanism they had discovered.
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