Abstract
Glyphosate and glyphosate-resistant crops had a revolutionary impact on weed management practices, but the epidemic of glyphosate-resistant (GR) weeds is rapidly decreasing the value of these technologies. In areas that fully adopted glyphosate and GR crops, GR weeds evolved and glyphosate and glyphosate traits now must be combined with other technologies. The chemical company solution is to combine glyphosate with other chemicals, and the seed company solution is to combine glyphosate resistance with other traits. Unfortunately, companies have not discovered a new commercial herbicide mode-of-action for over 30 years and have already developed or are developing traits for all existing herbicide types with high utility. Glyphosate mixtures and glyphosate trait combinations will be the mainstays of weed management for many growers, but are not going to be enough to keep up with the capacity of weeds to evolve resistance. Glufosinate, auxin, HPPD-inhibiting and other herbicide traits, even when combined with glyphosate resistance, are incremental and temporary solutions. Herbicide and seed businesses are not going to be able to support what critics call the chemical and transgenic treadmills for much longer. The long time without the discovery of a new herbicide mode-of-action and the epidemic of resistant weeds is forcing many growers to spend much more to manage weeds and creating a worst of times, best of times predicament for the crop protection and seed industry. © 2016 Society of Chemical Industry.
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Claims 7
Claim · model-written summary
Glyphosate and resistant crops transformed weed management.
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e0“Glyphosate and glyphosate-resistant crops had a revolutionary impact on weed management practices, but the epidemic of glyphosate-resistant (GR) weeds is rapidly decreasing the value of these technologies”
t0“glyphosate‐resistant crops”
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Resistant weeds are reducing the technologies value.
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e0“the epidemic of glyphosate-resistant (GR) weeds is rapidly decreasing the value of these technologies”
t0“glyphosate-resistant crops”
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Glyphosate resistant weeds evolved where glyphosate and resistant crops were fully adopted.
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e0“In areas that fully adopted glyphosate and GR crops, GR weeds evolved”
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Glyphosate mixtures and trait combinations are expected to remain central to management.
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e0“Glyphosate mixtures and glyphosate trait combinations will be the mainstays of weed management for many growers”
t0“glyphosate-resistant crops”
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These combinations are projected to fall short of weed resistance evolution.
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- glyphosate-resistant cropst0
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- weedse0weed
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- not going to be enough to keep up with the capacity of weeds to evolve resistancee0
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e0“but are not going to be enough to keep up with the capacity of weeds to evolve resistance”
t0“glyphosate-resistant crops”
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Other herbicide resistance traits offer incremental temporary solutions.
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e0“Glufosinate, auxin, HPPD-inhibiting and other herbicide traits, even when combined with glyphosate resistance, are incremental and temporary solutions”
t0“glyphosate-resistant crops”
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Growers are spending more to manage resistant weeds.
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e0“the epidemic of resistant weeds is forcing many growers to spend much more to manage weeds”
t0“glyphosate-resistant crops”