Sentences with phrase «combining multiple chemicals»

Preliminary results from the five - year study (funded by Monsanto) suggest that new strategies, such as combining multiple chemicals and applying herbicides both before and after weeds emerge, can improve crop yields compared with the typical glyphosate - heavy approach, while slowing the emergence of resistance.

Not exact matches

What I find most frightening is that there is no testing to determine what happens when multiple products are used concurrently or sequentially, or what happens when they combine with other chemicals (synthetic and natural) in the environment or in organisms.

Now chemical biologist Virginia W. Cornish and coworkers at Columbia University have developed a technique, called heritable recombination, that exploits yeast sexual reproduction to make multiple genetic changes simultaneously and then to combine them (ACS Synth.

The high number is partially due to better monitoring capabilities but exposure to these toxins when combined with other factors such as stress and a poor diet can lead to metabolic imbalance and various diseases including multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS).