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Superweeds

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'Super Gene' Helps Weeds Resist All Herbicides - Andy Coghlan, NewSci.

No wonder wheat and barley farmers in Europe and Australia have trouble killing ryegrass and black-grass. These plants have a master gene that makes some strains resistant to all major...

Losing Ground in the War on Weeds - Helen Thompson, Nature News

With its jumble of leaves and pointy, green, flower spikes, the plant known as pigweed or palmer amaranth (Amaranthus palmeri) isn’t much to look at. But to farmers in the southeastern...

GM Crops + Herbicides = Super-Superweeds? - Brandon Keim, Wired

Herbicide-resistant superweeds threaten to overgrow U.S. fields, so agriculture companies have genetically engineered a new generation of plants to withstand heavy doses of multiple,...

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