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Science 25 May 2007:
Vol. 316. no. 5828, pp. 1114 - 1117
DOI: 10.1126/science.316.5828.1114
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AGBIOTECH:
A Growing Threat Down on the Farm

Robert F. Service

Farmers have become dependent on a herbicide called glyphosate and on crops engineered to resist it. Now, weeds are becoming resistant, and researchers are scrambling for alternatives. Crops engineered to resist dicamba, described in a report on page 1185 of this issue of Science, may offer one such alternative.

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