- Author: Lynn M. Sosnoskie
Greetings all. I'll get back to some serious posts, soon. However, I thought I would celebrate the turning of the seasons with song. Nerdy songs. Songs only a scientist could love.
FYI, some of these come with annoying commercials that you need to skip...Enjoy.
First, near and dear to a weed scientist's heart, "The Wild Radish Song". To the tune of "Somebody I Used to Know".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7Kv5tl2rK0
For the graduate students, a Lady Gaga parody "Bad Project".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fl4L4M8m4d0
Or the...
- Author: Oleg Daugovish
- Posted by: Gale Perez
From the Topics in Subtropics blog :: July 5, 2013
It is not always easy to kill weeds with herbicides for several reasons, but if you apply the right material at the right time to susceptible weeds you expect control. But you should never assume it, because resistant weeds rely on this assumption.
Repeated use of herbicides with the same mode of action (usually the same target site within plant) selects for naturally occurring resistance traits in weed population. The few resistant weeds proliferate since there is no longer competition from susceptible types and if other control measures are not...
- Author: Brad Hanson
I'm at my desk today catching up (slightly) on things that accumulated during the past few months when it seemed like I was in meetings more than I was anywhere else. I thought I'd share a few thoughts on one upcoming meeting to put on your "I should think about attending" radar as well as three recent weed science meetings.
For your radar:
Weed Day 2014 at UC Davis will be held on July 10, 2014. I'm the chairperson for this year's Weed Day, the 58th annual Weed Day by the way. At this point, the program is a work-in-progress, but will have a similar format to previous years. We'll start off with a...
- Author: Brad Hanson
See the attached position advertisement for a postdoctoral research position at the Rice Experiment Station in Biggs, CA.
Brad
Project Background and Position Description:
We offer a post-doctoral position to work with the RES Rice Breeding Program in screening and evaluating tolerance of rice germplasm and available mutant populations to herbicides for weed control in rice. The successful candidate will be responsible for developing and testing screening protocols for different herbicides in the lab, greenhouse and rice field, as well as develop additional mutant populations using chemical or...
- Author: Steve Orloff
- Posted by: Gale Perez
From the Alfalfa & Forage News blog :: Feb. 18, 2013
Dodder is a troublesome annual parasitic weed that infests alfalfa fields. Initial infestations are usually caused by sowing dodder infested seed (a good reason to purchase Certified seed) and by “sheeping off” fields with sheep that came from an infested field. Perhaps no weed problem is worse than an alfalfa field heavily infested with dodder. As a parasite, it lives at the expense of the alfalfa plant and literally sucks the vigor and life out of the plant. If left uncontrolled it can actually kill the alfalfa plant. It emerges as a rootless shoot and must...
