Smoking out blackgrass seeds

Tuesday, July 5, 2016 - 23:31 in Mathematics & Economics

Blackgrass is a problem weed in UK agriculture, but a new technique may help farmers to combat its resistance to herbicides. Application of a smoke particle solution called 'smokewater' has been found to cause blackgrass seeds to germinate early, becoming vulnerable to certain herbicides which they would normally evade.

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