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A Mini Review on Natural Safeners: Chemistry, Uses, Modes of Action, and Limitations

Plants, 2022
Herbicide injury is a common problem during the application of herbicides in practice. However, applying herbicide safeners can avoid herbicide damage. Safeners selectively protect crops against herbicide injury without affecting the biological activity ...
Xile Deng
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Colletotrichum echinochloae: A Potential Bioherbicide Agent for Control of Barnyardgrass (Echinochloa crus-galli (L.) Beauv.)

Plants, 2023
Barnyardgrass (Echinochloa crus-galli (L.) Beauv.) is one of the most troublesome weeds in transplanted and direct-seeded rice worldwide. To develop a strategy for the biocontrol of barnyardgrass, fungal isolates were recovered from barnyardgrass plants ...
Qiongnan Gu, Shihai Chu, Qichao Huang, Anan Chen, Lin Li, Ruhai Li   +5 more
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Current Advances in the Action Mechanisms of Safeners

Agronomy, 2022
Herbicide safeners are a series of agrochemicals that can selectively protect crop plants from herbicide injury without affecting herbicidal efficacy. Understanding mechanisms by which safeners act is significant for discovery of novel types.
Xile Deng
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Weeds in Cover Crops: Context and Management Considerations

, 2021
Cover crops are increasingly being adopted to provide multiple ecosystem services such as improving soil health, managing nutrients, and decreasing soil erosion. It is not uncommon for weeds to emerge in and become a part of a cover crop plant community.
Mitchell C. Hunter, Mary E. Barbercheck, William S. Curran, Denise M. Finney, Jess Bunchek, Jason P. Kaye, David A. Mortensen, Barbara Baraibar, Charles M. White   +8 more
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Weed leucaena and its significance, implications and control

Tropical Grasslands-Forrajes Tropicales, 2019
Keynote paper presented at the International Leucaena Conference, 1‒3 November 2018, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Leucaena (Leucaena leucocephala) is widely recognized in many countries as a commercially valuable plant, particularly when used as a ...
Shane Campbell, Wayne Vogler, Dannielle Brazier, Joseph Vitelli, Simon Brooks   +4 more
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Mutation in the Cadherin Gene Is a Key Factor for Pink Bollworm Resistance to Bt Cotton in China

Toxins, 2022
Transgenic crops producing Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) toxins are widely planted for insect control, but their efficacy may decrease as insects evolve resistance.
Ling Wang, Dong Xu, Yunxin Huang, Huazhong Zhou, Weiguo Liu, Shengbo Cong, Jintao Wang, Wenjing Li, Peng Wan   +8 more
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Assessment of Kweilingia divina as a potential augmentative biological control agent against the gramineous weed Microstegium vimineum

Biological Control
Microstegium vimineum (Trin.) A. Camus, commonly called stiltgrass, is an exotic and indigenous troublesome weed in the United States and eastern Asia, respectively. Between 2020 and 2022, a damaging disease was observed on M. vimineum plants at the foot
Min Tan, Yanxia Fang, Sheng Qiang
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Thiamine Is Required for Virulence and Survival of Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato DC3000 on Tomatoes

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2022
Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato DC3000 (PstDC3000) is an important plant pathogen that infects tomatoes and Arabidopsis. Thiamine and its derivative thiamine pyrophosphate (TPP) are cofactors that play an important role in the growth and survival of many
Jun Liu, Jun Liu, Jun Liu, Xuejiang Zhang, Xuejiang Zhang, Xuejiang Zhang, Siyi Deng, Siyi Deng, Siyi Deng, Hua Wang, Hua Wang, Hua Wang, Youfu Zhao   +12 more
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Agricultural intensification and climate change have increased the threat from weeds [PDF]

, 2021
Weeds represent a significant threat to crop yields and global food security. We analysed data on weed competition from the world's longest running agricultural experiment to ask whether potential yield losses from weeds have increased in response to ...
Andrew Mead, Storkey, J., John Addy, Jonathan Storkey, Mead, A., Andrew J. MacDonald, Addy, J., Macdonald, A. J.   +7 more
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Activity of Ajuga iva Extracts Against the African Cotton Leafworm Spodoptera littoralis

Insects, 2020
Control of the crop pest African cotton leafworm, Spodoptera littoralis (Boisduval), by chemical insecticides has led to serious resistance problems. Ajuga plants contain phytoecdysteroids (arthropod steroid hormone analogs regulating metamorphosis) and ...
Leena Taha-Salaime, Galina Lebedev, Jackline Abo-Nassar, Sally Marzouk, Moshe Inbar, Murad Ghanim, Radi Aly   +6 more
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