A new way to control 'superweeds': Two bacterial enzymes confer resistance to common herbicide
Friday, January 21, 2011 - 21:30
in Mathematics & Economics
They pop up in farm fields across 22 states, and they've been called the single largest threat to production agriculture that farmers have ever seen. They are "superweeds" -- undesirable plants that can tolerate multiple herbicides -- and they cost time and money because the only real solution is for farmers to plow them out of the field before they suffocate corn, soybeans or cotton. Researchers may now have a new weapon on the horizon to eliminate superweeds.