News tagged with weed species

Climate change may wake up 'sleeper' weeds

(PhysOrg.com) -- Climate change will cause some of Australia’s potential weeds to move south by up to 1000km, according to a report by scientists at CSIRO’s Climate Adaptation Flagship.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 15, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (26) | comments 3

Birds cultivate decorative plants to attract mates

An international team of scientists has uncovered the first evidence of a non-human species cultivating plants for use other than as food. Instead, bowerbirds propagate fruits used as decorations in their ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Apr 23, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Scientists rediscover rarest US bumblebee

A team of scientists from the University of California, Riverside recently rediscovered the rarest species of bumblebee in the United States, last seen in 1956, living in the White Mountains of south-central ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 05, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Climate change allows invasive weed to outcompete local species

Yellow starthistle already causes millions of dollars in damage to pastures in western states each year, and as climate changes, land managers can expect the problem with that weed and others to escalate.

Biology / Ecology

created May 31, 2011 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (5) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Scientists learn how horseweed shrugs off herbicide

As everyone knows, the pharmaceutical industry is struggling to deal with bacteria that have become resistant to common antibiotics. Less well known is the similar struggle in agribusiness to deal with weeds ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jun 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

War on willows

Willows are major environmental weeds of riverbank habitats across much of south-eastern Australia. They obstruct water flow, increase water temperature, change water chemistry and can displace native riverine ...

Biology / Ecology

created Jul 29, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Microorganism may provide key to combating giant salvinia throughout Louisiana

A team of researchers at Louisiana Tech University has found that a naturally occurring microorganism acts as a natural herbicide against giant salvinia.

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Which direction are herbicides heading?

2,4-D is coming back. What many might consider a "dinosaur" may be the best solution for growers fighting weed resistance today, said Dean Riechers, University of Illinois associate professor of weed physiology.

Biology / Ecology

created Oct 11, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Waterhemp rears its ugly head ... again

Waterhemp has done it again. University of Illinois researchers just published an article in Pest Management Science confirming that waterhemp is the first weed to evolve resistance to HPPD-inhibiting herbicides.

Biology / Ecology

created Jan 26, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 4


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