Source: SUCCESSFUL FARMING, 10/5/21

Cementing waterhemp’s reputation as a hard-to-kill weed in corn and soybean production systems, University of Illinois (U of I) researchers have now documented the weed deviating from standard detoxification strategies to resist an herbicide that has never been commercialized. The chemical in question, syncarpic acid-3 (SA3), is the great-great-grandfather of the HPPD-inhibiting herbicide Callisto. SA3 has never been used in corn because it has the rather...

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