Weed That Eats Glyphosate Discovered in Australia

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Weed That Eats Glyphosate Discovered in Australia

Glyphosate …. has been the most frequently used herbicide on the planet, mainly because most plants cannot metabolise it, or break it down. But a barnyard grass population in the Ord irrigation scheme is the first weed scientifically proven to be the exception to the rule.

Professor Stephen Powles is among a group of researchers at the Australian Herbicide Resistance Initiative who have spent the best part of a decade trying to crack the mystery behind this supposed ‘super weed’.