Field, greenhouse, and laboratory experiments were conducted at the Montana State University Southern Agricultural Research Center, Huntley, MT, USA, in 2012 and 2013, to evaluate the effectiveness of various postharvest-appliedherbicideson late-season control, fecundity, seed viability, andprogenyfitnessofKochia scoparia (kochia) in wheat stubble. Paraquat þ atrazine, paraquat þ linuron, and p...

Recent confirmation of dicamba-resistant kochia [Bassia scoparia (L.) A.J. Scott] in Alberta warrants investigation resistance to other commonly used synthetic auxin herbicides like fluroxypyr. A randomized-stratified survey 305 sites was conducted 2017 determine the status fluroxypyr-resistant kochia. Overall, 13% populations were fluroxypyr-resistant. Only 4% both fluroxypyr- and dicamba-resi...

5-Hexadecenoic acid can be used to produce a semichemical method to control the disease-carrying mosquito Culex quinquefasciatus. This unusual fatty acid is produced in the seed of Kochia scoparia. We have isolated two acyl-acyl carrier protein desaturases from this species and expressed them in Escherichia coli to facilitate functional characterisation.