How Are Herbicides Discovered?

Monday, September 8, 2008 - 11:35 in Mathematics & Economics

As a lesson to teach upper-level undergraduate students and graduate students how herbicides are developed, a new interactive website has been developed by William E. Dyer of Montana State University. The lesson teaches that almost all herbicides on the market today were developed by companies that make dyes, plastics, or other industrial compounds, who simply sprayed their chemicals on plants and the ones that killed the weeds were made into commercial products.

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