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  • Study: New mutations for herbicide resistance rarer than expected

    May 28, 2019 10:30 am by Diana YatesResearch
    researcher in greenhouse surrounded by Amaranthus hypochondriacus weeds

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    • researcher in greenhouse surrounded by Amaranthus hypochondriacus weeds

    After exposing more than 70 million grain amaranth seeds to a soil-based herbicide, researchers were not able to find a single herbicide-resistant mutant.