Growing resistance to chemical herbicides. (Univ of Wisconsin-Madison professor Robert G. Harvey believes that weeds will gain greater resistance to herbicides as triazines are phased out and replaced by weed-specific chemicals)(Brief Article)

From: USA Today (Magazine) | Date: June 1, 1996 | Copyright information

Herbicide resistance in weeds, one of the most vexing issues of modern agriculture, is about to get worse, cautions Robert G. Harvey, professor of agronomy, University of Wisconsin-Madison. He maintains that the phasing out of the broad-acting triazine family of herbicides and their replacement by more weed-specific chemicals is almost certain to lead to greater resistance to chemical herbicides.

The triazines--organic chemical herbicides first introduced in the 1950s--have ...

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