Source: Denise Attaway, FARM PROGRESS, 9/24/20


Just hearing “pigweed” can cause fear in cotton and soybean farmers, but a Clemson University geneticist and others believe they have discovered the armor this dreaded weed uses to protect itself against the herbicide glyphosate. A Clemson geneticist is part of a team that has determined a new means of controlling Palmer amaranth. The researchers have determined a specific genetic feature, the extrachromosomal circular ...

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