Transgenic crops : new weed problems for Canada?

Transdisciplinary weed research: new leverage on challenging weed problems?

N JORDAN, M SCHUT, S GRAHAM, J N BARNEY, D Z CHILDS, S CHRISTENSEN, R D COUSENS, A S DAVIS, H EIZENBERG, D E ERVIN, C FERNANDEZ-QUINTANILLA, L J HARRISON, M A HARSCH, S HEIJTING, M LIEBMAN, D LODDO, S B MIRSKY, M RIEMENS, P NEVE, D A PELTZER, M RENTON, M WILLIAMS, J RECASENS & M SØNDERSKOV Agronomy and Plant Genetics Department, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, USA, Knowledge Technology a...

Transgenic Crops for Herbicide Resistance

A year after the introduction of the first commercial transgenic crop (Flavr SavrTM tomato with a longer shelf life) in 1994, transgenic, herbicide-resistant crops (HRCs) were introduced (Table 3.1) with the introduction of bromoxynil(3,5dibromo-4-hydroxybenzonitrile) resistant cotton and glufosinate[2-amino-4(hydroxymethylphosphinyl)butanoic acid] resistant canola. Bromoxynil resistance had li...

Rottboellia cochinochinensis, a new weed for Iran

During plant collecting for a herbarium in Khuzestan province (Iran), the weed species Rottboellia cochinochinensis (Loureiro) Clayton from family Poaceae was collected. In this paper, the species is reported for the first time from Iran.

Weed Management: Implications of Herbicide Resistant Crops

Special Section: Transgenic Crops

AFTER centuries of improving crop plants by breeding for desirable traits, agricultural scientists are now using the tools of molecular biology and genetic engineering to develop transgenic plants with the desired genes. Enormous progress has been made over the past decade in our understanding of the highly complex molecular events that occur in plant–pathogen interactions. This knowledge in tu...