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The Needs for New Herbicide-Resistant Crops

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Resistance ’91: Achievements and Developments in Combating Pesticide Resistance

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The technologies of isolating genes conferring resistance and engineering them into crops have been worked out, and a number of field trials are under way. There seem to be few new initiatives. There are three major threats to the world food supply that are not being addressed where engineering will help: Parasitic weeds, for which there are no selective herbicides, halve yields in the third world. Engineering certain target-site resistances into the crops should allow selective control of these parasites; (2) Weeds have evolved cross resistances to all previously usable wheat selective herbicides, which can be alleviated by engineering new resistances into wheat; (3) Major maize herbicides in the triazine and chloroacetamide groups have been banned in various countries. Triazine-resistant weeds are also problems on 3 million hectares. Thus, new selectivities may have to be engineered into maize.

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Gressel, J. (1992). The Needs for New Herbicide-Resistant Crops. In: Denholm, I., Devonshire, A.L., Hollomon, D.W. (eds) Resistance ’91: Achievements and Developments in Combating Pesticide Resistance. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2862-9_24

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