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Identification of a chemically induced point mutation mediating herbicide tolerance in annual medics (Medicago spp.).
Annals of botany - 1 May 2008
Oldach Klaus H, Peck David M, Cheong Judy, Williams Kevin J, Nair Ramakrishnan M
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BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Sulfonylurea (SU) herbicides are used extensively in cereal-livestock farming zones as effective and cheap herbicides with useful levels of residual activity. These residues can persist beyond the cropping year, severely affecting legumes in general, and annual medics in particular, resulting in reduced dry matter production, lower seed yields and decreased nitrogen fixation. A strand medic...
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