Scientists have reached another milestone in the fight against herbicide resistant weeds.
Information about genome research of waterhemp, smooth pigweed and palmer amaranth have been published for companies to use in product development.
Pat Tranel with the University of Illinois tells Brownfield this information provides a better understanding of how the weeds evade damage from herbicides.
“We have a good road map now of these species’ genomes which we can use to understand how they’re evolving with non-target site resistance which is increasingly becoming a problem for producers trying to manage these weeds.”
Tranel says they now have a catalog of all the different genes that could potentially metabolize a herbicide.
