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Response to low-dose herbicide selection in self-pollinated Avena fatua.
Pest management science - 1 Mar 2016
Busi Roberto, Girotto Marcelo, Powles Stephen B
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: When applied at the correct plant stage and dose, herbicides are highly toxic to plants. At reduced, low herbicide doses (below the recommended dose) plants can survive and display continuous and quantitative variation in dose-survival responses. Recurrent (directional) selection studies can reveal whether such a phenotypic variation in plant survival response to low herbicide dose is heritable and...
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