CROPPING SYSTEMS FOR MANAGING WEEDS

• Main Authors: VOTH RICHARD D, GRAHAM JAMES C, BRINKER RONALD J, ELMORE GREY, STARKE MICHELLE, SAMMONS ROBERT D, ARNEVIK CINDY L
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 11.12.2008
• Subjects: AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; BIOCIDES, e.g. AS DISINFECTANTS, AS PESTICIDES, AS HERBICIDES; FISHING; FORESTRY; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HUNTING; PEST REPELLANTS OR ATTRACTANTS; PLANT GROWTH REGULATORS; PRESERVATION OF BODIES OF HUMANS OR ANIMALS OR PLANTS OR PARTSTHEREOF; TRAPPING

The invention provides cropping systems for managing weeds in crop environments. The cropping systems comprise, in one embodiment, transgenic plants that display tolerance to an auxin-like herbicide such as dicamba. Method for minimizing the development of herbicide resistant weeds are also provided...