ALLEN VAN DEYNZE, Biotechnology Specialist, Seed Biotechnology Center, University of California, Davis; DANIEL H. PUTNAM, University of California Cooperative Extension Alfalfa Specialist, University of California, Davis; STEVE ORLOFF, University of California Cooperative Extension Farm Advisor and County Director, Siskiyou County; TOM LANINI, Cooperative Extension Weed Specialist, University o...

UNLABELLED Roundup is an online database of gene orthologs for over 1800 genomes, including 226 Eukaryota, 1447 Bacteria, 113 Archaea and 21 Viruses. Orthologs are inferred using the Reciprocal Smallest Distance algorithm. Users may query Roundup for single-linkage clusters of orthologous genes based on any group of genomes. Annotated query results may be viewed in a variety of ways including a...

esults from Qinghai Zhang, Jeffery Kelly (Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA), and colleagues suggest that evil metabolites may accelerate Alzheimer’s disease (AD) by promoting protein misfolding. This folding effect may explain why inflammation and high cholesterol are risk factors for AD. AD results from aggregates of a misfolded form of amyloid peptide (A ). Misfolding occasionally res...

The acute toxicity of technical-grade glyphosate acid, glyphosate isopropylamine, and three glyphosate formulations was determined for adults of one species and tadpoles of four species of southwestern Australian frogs in 48-h static/renewal tests. The 48-h LC50 values for Roundup(R) Herbicide (MON 2139) tested against tadpoles of Crinia insignifera, Heleioporus eyrei, Limnodynastes dorsalis, a...

The only scientifically valid control for such experiments is the concurrent control, not historical control data. This is because scientific experiments are designed to reduce variables to a minimum. The concurrent control group achieves this because it consists of animals treated identically to the experimental group, except that they are not exposed to the substance under study. Thus, the on...

Soybean growers have adopted herbicide tolerant varieties at a rapid rate. While some potential cost savings may have driven adoption, the primary reason growers are switching to new programs is the simplicity and flexibility of a weed control program that relies on one herbicide to control a broad spectrum of weeds without crop injury or crop rotation restrictions. Roundup Ready weed control p...