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Science 25 August 1972:
Vol. 177. no. 4050, pp. 715 - 716
DOI: 10.1126/science.177.4050.715
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Field and Vegetable Crop Mutants with Increased Resistance to Herbicides

Moshe J. Pinthus 1, Yaacov Eshel 1, and Yalon Shchori 1

1 Factulty of Agriculture, Department of Field and Vegetable Crops, Hebrew University, Rehovot, Israel

Wheat mutants with increased seedling resistance to terbutryn (2-tertbutylamino-4-ethylamino-6-methylthio-s-triazine) and tomato mutants with increased resistance to diphenamid (N,N-dimethyl-2,2-diphenylacetamide) were selected by the experimenters out of populations grown from seeds treated with ethyl methanesulfonate. Induced mutations may thus provide a tool for breeding crop cultivars with increased resistance to certain herbicides.

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