Duke, S O (2005) Sorghum Needs Its Space, Too:How it guards itself may be key in crops' battle against weeds. Agricultural Research, 53 (5). pp. 18-19.
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Abstract
Like people, plants need their space. The amouni of room around them greatly influences how much sunlight they get, how large they grow, and how healthy they are. And just like us, some plants are more protective than others of their space. Scientists in the ARS Natural Products Utilization Research Unit at Oxford, Mississippi, are studying sorghum, one of the more assertive of these plants, as part of efforts to help food crops wage a better fight against an arch nemesis: weeds. "Crops have been bred and engineered to defend against insects, nematodes, and diseases," says plant physiologist Stephen Duke, the unit's research leader. "But almost nothing has been done to help crops fend off weeds, other than making them resistant to synthetic herbicides. If major crops could be made to produce natural herbicides, use of synthetic pesticides would be significantly reduced."...........
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Author Affiliation: | ARS Natural Products Utilization Research Unit, Oxford |
| Subjects: | Plant Protection |
| Divisions: | Sorghum |
| Depositing User: | Mr. SanatKumar Behera |
| Date Deposited: | 24 Mar 2012 11:51 |
| Last Modified: | 24 Mar 2012 11:52 |
| Official URL: | http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/ar/archive/2005.htm |
| URI: | http://eprints.icrisat.ac.in/id/eprint/4110 |
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