Genetically-Altered Crops Can Produce Tough, Hard-To-Kill Weeds
... cause somenegative characteristics to emerge in a weed that would limit its reproduction. For instance, a hybrid weed might produce fewer flowers or seeds than a pureweed. Snow collaborated with Risoe National ...Putting Down Your Roots: How Plants Know To Do It
...raphs available The next time you pick up a bag of weed killer from The Home Depot,think about this: a che...your pets. Now a new study of root growthin a tiny weed called Arabidopsis thaliana suggests that genetics could helpscientists save valuable time and money...Purdue Golf Course Serves Double Duty As Research Lab
...s to control annual bluegrass, which is the No. 1 weed problem on golf courses. Studying turf species other than bentgrass to see if they offer environmental advantages. Improving tree survival in suburbia New home construction often leaves a neighborhood with no trees, and compoun...Weevils Wipe Out Killer Weeds In Papua New Guinea
...wiped out 20 square kilometres of a noxious water weed infesting the Sepik River in PNG. Researchers ...was neither desirable or practical to control the weed with herbicides and so alternative control methods were sought. "Firstly, we needed to locate wa...Virginia Tech Offers Biotechnology 2001 Conference for Educators
... Tech professor of plant pathology, physiology and weed science and vice president of research with Croptech Development Corporation of Blacksburg, will talk about "Transgenic Plants for Human Pharmaceutical and Vaccine Production." "Gene Therapy and Gene Repair" is the topic of a talk by Ken Culve...Invasive Weeds Pose Major Threat To American Landscape
...ch as kudzu, Japanese honeysuckleand mile-a-minute weed are completely draping forested areas and affectingforest ecosystem health," Dombeck said. The report's authors blame the increase and spread of invasive plants on anincreasing human population that has led to greater disturbance of the land,inc...Recovery From Mass Extinction Is Unexpectedly Diverse
...This phenomenon is analogousto a plankton bloom or weed growth after some ecological disturbance." Afterseeing the pattern of bloom taxa in North America-first studied in 1988 by ThorHansen from Western Washington University-Jablonski expected to find the samepattern in Europe. "I was astounded when I fo...... July 31issue of the journal Nature that sex helps weed out harmful genetic mutations,increasing a population's genetic fitness. Clifford Zeyl, assistant professor of biology at Wake Forest University,said that his studies of sexual reproduction in brewer's yeast, Saccharomycescerevisiae, have fou...