Understanding how weeds are resistant to herbicides
Thursday, August 6, 2009 - 04:42
in Biology & Nature
In a little over seven hours, University of Illinois weed scientist Patrick Tranel got more genetic information about waterhemp than in two years time in a lab. The genetic information was obtained using pyrosequencing technology in the Keck Centre at the U of I. The genetic sequence will allow scientists to study herbicide resistance in waterhemp...