- Author: Marie Jasieniuk
- Posted by: Gale Perez
Published on: September 10, 2018

Translocation of glyphosate
Herbicides are the main means of controlling weeds. Recently, there has been increasing concern over the potential impacts of climate change, specifically, increasing temperatures and elevated carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations, on the sensitivity of weeds to herbicides. A postdoctoral fellow in my lab, Maor Matzrafi, investigated the response of horseweed and lambsquarters to treatment with glyphosate under the higher temperatures and CO2 levels that are predicted to exist in northern California around 2050. Maor showed that the sensitivity of both weeds to glyphosate was reduced in response to increased temperature, elevated CO2 level, and the combination of both factors. He also found that...
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Tags: Climate Change (2), glyphosate (40), herbicide (86), horseweed (7), lambsquarter (1), weed (30), weed control (122)
Focus Area Tags: Agriculture, Pest Management
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