News tagged with weed species
Climate change may wake up 'sleeper' weeds
Apr 15, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Climate change will cause some of Australia’s potential weeds to move south by up to 1000km, according to a report by scientists at CSIRO’s Climate Adaptation Flagship.
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Feed your crop, not the weeds
Jun 23, 2009 |
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If you have weed problems in your cropping system, will adding nutrients just feed the weeds?
Sicilian word enters British genetic language
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Nov 13, 2008 |
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A scientific team from the John Innes Centre and University of St Andrews has identified a key gene that was transferred from a Sicilian plant into a close relative in Britain, showing how genetic cross-talk ...
Organic weed control for dandelions
Sep 08, 2009 |
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Spring and summer often find homeowners out in their yards, busily attempting to control the onslaught of dandelions in a quest for green, weed-free lawns. Dandelions, broadleaf perennial plants that have a questionable reputation ...
Organic weed control options for highbush blueberry
Nov 04, 2009 |
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Research scientists at Nova Scotia Agricultural College have been working steadily to find effective organic methods to control weeds in cultivated blueberry crops. One resulting study, published in a recent ...
Rabbits to the rescue of the reef
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Mar 19, 2008 |
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While rabbits continue to ravage Australia’s native landscapes, rabbit fish may help save large areas of the Great Barrier Reef from destruction.
Invasive plants challenge scientists in face of environmental change
Jan 13, 2009 |
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Managing invasive plant species on the Great Plains has become more challenging in recent years in the face of human-caused environmental change, including the positive responses of invaders to altered atmospheric chemistry ...
Understanding how weeds are resistant to herbicides
Aug 05, 2009 |
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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 ...
Early detection sought for aquatic invasive weed Eurasian Watermilfoil
Jul 03, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Battling invasive plants is nothing new to Montanans, but a newcomer on the scene dwells in the water. This aquatic invader is called Eurasian watermilfoil. Fortunately, Montanans can take preventive action ...
Plant biologist seeks molecular differences between rice and its mimic
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Dec 19, 2006 |
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Red rice sounds like a New Orleans dish or a San Francisco treat. But it's a weed, the biggest nuisance to American rice growers, who are the fourth largest exporters of rice in the world. And rice farmers hate the pest, ...
Study: Invasive species kills soil fungus
Apr 25, 2006 |
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U.S. scientists, part of an international research team, say hardwood trees are being harmed by an invasive weed spreading across the nation.
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