Sentences with word «superweeds»

The emergence of superweeds also raises questions about justifications for genetically engineered crops

The rampant use of agricultural chemicals is creating superweeds that laugh in the face of chemicals... which is bad news for crop productivity and food security.

Longtime skeptics like Jeremy Rifkin worry that the resulting superweeds and superpests could further destabilize the stressed global ecosystem (see # 9).

Could climate change produce superweeds?

Appropriately named superweed takes over a soybean field.

There have been no tests whatsoever on the much more important issues of long - term soil pollution, transgene flow (carrying contamination to neighbouring fields), the very difficult problem of superweeds, or on the environmental impacts if crop yield profiteering were maximised.

What we do know is that constantly spraying genetically modified crops with Roundup has increased our dependence on this toxic weed killer and spawned a new generation of herbicide - resistant superweeds, Benbrook points out.

The rampant use of agricultural chemicals is creating superweeds that laugh in the face of chemicals; which is bad news for crop productivity and food security... but may have a silver lining.

Herbicide resistant «superweeds» have been identified on 14 million... Continued

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Also, instead of controlling pests and weeds, GMOs have led to the emergence of superpests and superweeds.

There is evidence from Canada and Argentina that initially yields increased with GM and pesticide use fell.However, Charles Benbrook, an independent US scientist formerly of the US Department of Agriculture, carried out a series of systematic studies that showed that over a five - year period, yields began to fall and pesticide use markedly increased to counter the proliferation of volunteers and superweeds.

Many experts do fear the great homogenisation of nature, a world taken over by a few mongrel and ubiquitous species — brown rats and house sparrows, superweeds and cultivated crops.

That is one of the reasons that farmers are worried by a new generation of superweeds that has developed resistance to the herbicide glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto's Roundup.

By Carey Gillam (Reuters)- Farmers in important crop - growing states should consider the environmentally unfriendly practice of deeply tilling fields to fight a growing problem with invasive «superweeds» that resist herbicides and choke crop yields, agricultural experts said this week.

These weeds are not «superweeds,» Mallory - Smith says.

Organizations like Earth Open Source have published GMO papers claiming that genetically engineered foods can be toxic, allergenic or less nutritious, increase pesticide use, and create herbicide - tolerant «superweeds» that plague crops and harm soil.

In the case of plants, one of those consequences is superweeds.

I'd hate to find out what the mosquito parallel for a superweed would be.